Sest belt warning.

[ScottD3]

It was a windup but I did buy one and I use it like this.

Wife is a little annoyed by it cause she seen the idea first and I promised to do it for her but I could not find the keyring for a seat.

[mannyo]

With the D3 you can just code it out, mind has no seatbelt warning at all. The light does work as I tested it using the instrument output test.

[roberto]

Originally Posted by ScottD3

It was a windup but I did buy one and I use it like this.

Wife is a little annoyed by it cause she seen the idea first and I promised to do it for her but I could not find the keyring for a seat.

..... ooh nice and easy for burglooers to spot .....

i hide mine

plus you need this

[tonupkid]

Mine are out of sight too, but there's two ways of looking at the burglar thing.

Make it easy for them to find the key and then they leave in the car they came for.

Make it impossible for them to find the key and then have your sleep disturbed by a polite request for the key, and then they leave with the car they came for.
I like my sleep, but then I like my car too.

First world problem

[oldnick]

joking aside , I have used seat belts since 1963
one of the directors of my company had a bad crash and was lucky to survive ; his surgeon told him that , had he been wearing seat belts he would probably escaped with some cracked ribs

the company issued an instruction that all company car drivers must have seat belts fitted to their vehicle , and that not to use them was a dismissable offence , they were a PITA , no reel belts in those days , but on one occasion they saved me from a much worse pain when I went in a dyke , hit a patch of black ice under a tree on a bright clear sunny morning !

[Architex_mA8tey]

I have a friend who was involved in a bad accident a few years ago, he was on the fosseway which is a very straight Roman road running north from Cirencester across to Leicester. The road is very undulating over all the hills and slopes of the Cotswolds.

He was driving along in a 7 series BMW and when he came up from one of these dips to the brow of the hill he faced another car which was overtaking another vehicle and was on his side of the road. The old lady driving it had not thought about unseen cars hidden in the dips and had just overtaken thinking the road was all clear a way ahead. He swerved to try and miss her but the two cars hit head on on the corner of each car as he swerved away into the verge and he took off and his car rolled into the fields to the left.

The other lady driver was unfortunately killed in the impact and my friend was only saved from the same fate by the fact that he was in a big 7 series BMW and that his seat belt saved him from much worse injuries. He had a year long recuperation from the accident and still has some aches and pains but his kids still have a dad. Sobering stuff and something that makes me think that driving around in a car as big and strong as an 8 is a very good idea.

[moltuae]

"Clunk Click Every Trip" as they used to say.


Now there's an ad I bet we won't see back on TV any time soon!

[Johnmed]

The three point safety belt we all use is the most important safety device in the modern car, followed by, interestingly, ESP. Not airbags or ABS, or what have you.

Volvo developed the seatbelt we all know and use, and allowed other manufacturers to use their idea to great effect. I understand why taxi drivers are permitted to not use theirs, but for others it is indispensable. I hate 'elf an' safety' as much as the next bloke, but when it saves the lives of those close to us, like seat belts and ESP do, it's hard to argue against such things.