Comments on: I Continue To Question Whether Or Not There Are Air Bags In My Car

By: lizriz

lizriz — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:00:49 +0000

For some reason this reminded me of when dry cleaners charge hundreds of dollars to clean a wedding dress and pack it safely away in a sealed bag, which you are absolutely not supposed to open… so how can you tell that they cleaned it???

Wow, this would be a much better comment were it funny at all.

By: Jacquie

Jacquie — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:32:46 +0000

I was about to argue your point and say I once knew a girl back in highschool who had burns on her face from her air bag deploying in a head-on collision but then I thought of two things;

1) I was not actually present at the time and did not see the airbags
2) That was a long time ago when airbags were first put in cars and so maybe back then they actually did have them, until they got wise and realize they could pull the scheme that you are so determined to educate us on.

I have an idea. I have a car that I’m about to replace. I’m not going to get any money for it since I’ve put almost 200K miles on it. Before I haul her off to the dump, I will somehow find out if she did, indeed, have dual airbags in her.

I’ll get back to you on that.

By: Dave2

Dave2 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:19:47 +0000

Your next entry should be the experience of running your car into a brick wall at 60 miles an hour…

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:23:49 +0000

Michelle - Your “mom works for the company that makes the airbags”, huh? I find it interesting, however, that you agree that “there really is no way to verify that there is actually one in your car.”

Air bags are the one product that we buy that we aren’t allowed to see. Ever.

Suspicious.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:35:56 +0000

Hmmm, my mom works for the company that makes the airbags (she puts the little explosive charge inside the bag and fold it into the steering wheel module for you) and when they have their family safety day they did deploy one for us, so I have seen one in action. No head injuries or anything.
That said, there really is no way to verify that there is actually one in your car unless you pull the steering wheel cover off. You could do that yourself with a screwdriver I’m sure but I think it would void any warranty that you had on the car. And maybe make people look at you funny.

By: alejna

alejna — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:00:13 +0000

That’s appalling. Giving a false pretense of cookies. Have they no shame?

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:36:34 +0000

Alejna - Those cookies, by the way, were also figments of their imaginations (at least when I looked for them).

By: alejna

alejna — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:34:29 +0000

That’s quite a lot of evidence. I’m just about convinced.

But Paul, did you get to eat any cookies? Or perhaps the cookies were also suspect…