Air bag fears

[hotsteel41]

Hey guys and gals I have a question on 4-wheeling and air bags.Do I just run around in the woods untill I hit a tree hard enough to set off the air bag.Can you pull out a fuse or do a mod so I don't eat air bag how hard can you hit a tree. hotsteel41 sek rocks

[Fjamming]

Why wouldn't you want the air bag to go off if you do hit a tree?

[F64]

Are you prepping for next Sunday's Forest Racing League 500 sponsored by Lumber Liquidators, or perhaps a logger chronically late for work...?

Whatever your particular circumstance, your fellow Kansans would like you to consider the following the next time you get behind the wheel...

http://www.kansasforests.org/communi...t/poster08.pdf

[DominicG]

Ditch the airbags and get a cage and 5-point's.


That's what I'm gonna do down the road..

[FJCcrawler]

Just get a full EXOCAGE!!! or just take the airbags out.

[hotsteel41]

I am feeling the heat still love you all I will be aiming for the rocks not the trees. Hotsteel41 sekrocks

[Fjamming]

Truly not trying to flame you. Just am not sure why you want to disable it. Are you afraid that they might go off with a minor hit?

[hotsteel41]

my step son slid into a tree in his 96 f150 ford and looked like he went 3 rounds with mike tyson. Hotsteel41 sekrocks

[jenward74]

hotsteel41 previously said:

Do I just run around in the woods untill I hit a tree hard enough to set off the air bag...

Nah, I wouldn't do that.

[1983FJ60]

hotsteel41 previously said:

my step son slid into a tree in his 96 f150 ford and looked like he went 3 rounds with mike tyson. Hotsteel41 sekrocks

for the people who wonder what someone looks like after they've been punched in the face by an airbag wonder what they'd look like if the airbag hadn't slowed the decelerative vectors in their brain an organs?

i think you miss the point of the airbag. it inflates in micrseconds then allows your gooey bits to decelerate gingerly instead of banging around on the hard parts of your skull and chest cavity, therby tearing themselves to nasty bits the neurosurgeons and vascular dudes have to pore over afterwards.

still, it's debateable if they work since proof of concept doesn't always mimic real world scenarios.

you can jethro the sucker and have nothing happen to you and then have one of those 'my brother's cousin' anectodtes all people who diss safety systems (like seatbelts) bring up in convos. but in reality seatbelts are your best bet, the airbag probably might leave you with bruises--the question being what kind of brain/organ injury you would have suffered without it.

meh.

we are free to do as we please.