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Disclaimer: These are not recommended fixes, but rather are posted for your entertainment.:3dSMILE:
probably exciting at 75mph
need to work on the gaps some. http://skins.hotbar.com/skins/mailsk.../emoti_462.gif
Painted white so it hides the dents.
White Foam?? for high speed crash
I wonder how they pop the hood? crowbar?
speechless....I think..hehe
Charlie has it right....reverse Nascar.....foam on the car instead of the wall.....not safer barrier but safer fender?
There goes the need for airbags, think of the weight saving, more fuel efficient. The guy is way ahead of his time, betting he's got one of those 100 mpg carbs hidden under the hood. I must agree those gaps need some attention.
should make the car run cooler :)
Different car, but must have bought into the built in safer barrier idea..............."I don't need no stinking air bags" (in your best Alfonso Bedoya impersonation)
Man, I hope the driver wear his seat belt, them staple could really leave a mark in a frontal collision!!!!!! Besides, everybody knows that duct tape works better then staples!!!!
Well if the bag don't maim you the staples will
Bag?? What bag?? I think it's gone. That's why they stapled it..
Now I'm wondering what "the law" is on air bags that have popped??? I'm sure there are rules somewhere about this, or, have we discovered a loop hole?
Would the airbag be a required safety device? HMmmmm...
I know if a shop repairs a car that the bag went off in it HAS to replace it. With the cost of new bags sometimes thats what will total a car.
It's been a decade since I sold my shop, so my references are admittedly dated. Whether or not there is any law requiring the airbags be replaced, we did every time if for no other reason than future liability. No sense making it easy for some blood sucking attorney. At that time side curtain airbags were just starting to filter into the market, so I'm just going to refer to steering wheel and dash airbags. When estimating a job we'd figure about $2k for steering wheel bag replacement, up to a min. $3k if both wheel and passenger side. Charlie is right, that additional cost often pushed a very repairable car to be an economic total loss (typical insurance company calculation was if the total cost of repair exceeded 80% of market value it's a goner, the other 20% or so being salvage value). Some may think those prices high, but as with many things, it's not just the price of the bag itself. Often one or more of the sensors needed replacement, as did the main control module. If the passenger went, then the dash pad needed replacement too. I chose to sublet the job to a certified company that had it's own liability insurance as a backstop to my garage keepers policy. Again, wary of the legal extortion racket. Other shops took risks I wasn't willing to do and gambled on doing it themselves. They often didn't have the needed diagnostic equipment to test if the system would work the next time. Their choice, and statistically they weren't in too much jeopardy, but still........
The outcome is/was that a fair number of not severely damaged cars found their way to the salvage auctions, There, they would be purchased by any number of "underground" repair facilities that had/have a reputation for shoddy repairs, and because of cost "containment", they often would get a used bag or hub cover from the salvage yard and just not replace the airbags, or put in a used bag without hooking it up. Some of those cars would end up in containers to meet overseas car demands, but most found their way back onto the streets to the "bargain hunters" who may not have been "sophisticated" enough to realize what they were buying (poor repairs, branded or faked title, lack of properly functioning basic safety equipment, and so on.)
Yeah, and I know it's (the airbag) like the most popular item stolen on some cars!
that and cat. converters
The same down here,Bob..Airbags have killed the repairs on many a good car,,that could be repaired in a matter of days..We have very strict laws on airbags,to the point that if the dash light is on,,it must be checked out before our six month roadworthy check is given..It is illegal to fit a steering wheel without an airbag to a car that came from the factory with an airbag..And so on..
Not sure what this one really means, but maybe it's for sweeping the airwaves for that oldies station...............:confused:
Or, maybe she's got an attitude problem and that's her spare?:3dSMILE:
Think that car belongs to my ex-wife #1---it's definitely her spare transportation.
That's a new twist for the flower thing, maybe her way of listening to Howard stern. That is really funny what kind of a person does that?
You've got to look closely at this one to fully appreciate all that's going on.........
I see a belt and I think a screwdriver holding things together????? Well, at least it's not like it's a critical part or something!!!!!!:rolleyes::rolleyes:
a tidy install if i ever saw one.....
looks like the muffler patches we did as kids. A aluminium soda can and a roll of baleen wire(actually patched a exhaust pipe on Dad's Lancia Zagato, so he wouldn't know we blew a hole in it racing!) :)
That's just SCARY! :eek:
I never heard of baleen wire.. we used baling wire...:rolleyes::)
that ain't the exhaust looks like suspension????
Whatever it is, it looks kinda vulgar to me.
Jim
You don' t use baleen, it's a renewable resource. Just use whales! :)
Since Stevie is so fond of exhaust repairs I'll jump out of sequence to give you this one:
I think we've all had a turn doing that one at least once in our life!
Yeah-I just did one on Rufus's crossover before we welded up a new one.Some sheet medal and expandable clamps.Sure beats slag tattoo's on my chest from up welds.:eek::rolleyes::LOL:
Instead of the wally wagon from Vacation, Chevy Chase gets a wally coupe........LOL