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Cake day: July 9th, 2023
  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•My favorite genre, by far.
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    4 days ago

    Seatbelts are highly recommended, for obvious safety reasons that practically everyone understands and agrees with.

    Unfortunately, in the condition my mom’s car is now in, the seatbelts no longer function and aren’t even usable anymore. If it counts for anything though, she barely even drives it maybe once or twice a month right around the corner to occasionally get a few groceries and her medicine and local stuff.

    She almost never puts it on the highway anymore, unless absolutely necessary. She gets most of her groceries and products delivered anymore.

    Usually I’d say there’s absolutely no excuse to not wear seatbelts, but in her case it’s a malfunction of a worn out piss poor design, she only drives it when necessary.

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•My favorite genre, by far.
    7·
    4 days ago

    Yep. I didn’t even know this for over a decade on my mom’s 94 Nissan Sentra. Apparently the lap belts had retracted underneath the rear floor mats. Mom didn’t know either.

    I had always assumed the buckles for those were meant for some odd central child safety seat add-on, but nope, they were for the totally hidden lap belts. 🤦‍♂️

    I didn’t find out until a previous related online thread only last year, which sent me on the hunt for the hidden lap belts, which I could have previously swore didn’t even exist.

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•My favorite genre, by far.
    53·
    4 days ago

    If you saw the ones on my mom’s 94 Nissan Sentra, you’d see they’re totally busted now, and the rails are only made of plastic, which long ago dryrotted and now the guide cables are just randomly hanging out and neither side works anymore.

    Hell, even when they were brand spanking new, do you really trust your life to seatbelts only held in place by fucking plastic tracks?

    Plus you still gotta manually latch the lower lap belt, which most people totally forget even exist when the shoulder belt is automatic.

    That’s like the most dangerous form of seatbelt to have ever been made. Thankfully that shit rightfully died out, the OG 3 point seatbelt invented by Volvo is by far the best.

    If you want photos of my mom’s damaged seatbelts to better understand, just message me back and I’ll see about getting and sharing a photo tomorrow or soon. It’s fucked.