bighawg
Proud Rider of the Short Bus
This weeks poll comes from Marauderer. Do you use your seat belt? Yes. No. Sometimes.
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Same with me. If you don't buckle up in my vehicle, you walk,I always wear mine, and my passengars wear theirs too or they can walk. I've been in two accidents in my life and the only reason I am here now is because of a seatbelt.
I bet you pull the seatbelt all the way out while you are buckling up.Only time I don't wear one is on washboard mountain roads. Damn thing will ratchet you down until you can't breath. Soon as I hit pavement it's back on.
Its the law in every state. It may not be a primary offense, like reason enough (alone) to get stopped for but its one of those federally mandated things that came out.
I wear mine all the time.
I wear mine at work 99.9% of the time. I'm surrounded by guys who dont.
I bet you pull the seatbelt all the way out while you are buckling up.
Modern seatbelts have a comfort feature that allows the belt to move with you while you move around with the belt on. If there is an instance of sudden deceleration, the reel mechanism will lock up. However, pulling the belt all the way out will defeat the comfort feature in the shoulder belt reel. This is done so that you can tighten the seatbelt around a child safety seat and hold it in place. This will keep the belt tight until you open the door. I know, you would never put a child safety seat on the driver's seat, but as a cost saving measure, car companies often use the same reel mechanism for all seatbelts.
If you only pull the seatbelt part of the way out while you are buckling up, the comfort feature will work just fine and the belt should not ratchet on you when no sudden deceleration takes place and if it does, it should unlock by itself. Pulling the belt all the way out defeats this comfort feature and you have to open the door and or let the belt fully retract before it will release.