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two_evil Enthusiast

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My car didn't came with any safety devices besides the good old seat belts :)

I would like it to have ABS & traction control as the traction in the wet is horrible, need to drive extra slow otherwise the rear wheels will break traction.

But on the other hand I don't see the point in traction control in my dad's Corolla, the engine is so low on torque you can't lose traction even if you floor it while the road is wet... only time it may lose traction is if you were driving super retarded in the rain or someone poured oil on the road.

Learn how to drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hanaldo Grand Master

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I was last week in my s2 skyline and ended up in a car accident car. The car was totaled, pretty much i doubt its going to hit your glasses because the airbag is most likely going to hit your chest. But at the time the crash happened it happened in such a fast manner that you don't feel it only after would you might feel it, as most likely your going to have chest pains and whiplash from the seat belt. So you shouldn't worry about the airbags hitting your glasses while driving, plus the airbags when they do hit you they don't hurt much, i didn't even feel it when it hit me.

When my uncle was in a car accident (was driving his work car which was a 1997 BMW M5), the air bag smashed his face. I wish I had the pictures he showed me, but basically his whole face got completely messed up. Broken nose, fractured left eye socket, his right eye was so badly swollen the skin split, and bruised gums from where the air bag moved his teeth. He needed an operation to fix his eye socket, 6 stitches where his other eye split, and is still undergoing dental work to fix his teeth (two years after the accident).

No doubt airbags are necessary, I fully agree that removing it would be stupid. I hate to think what my uncles face would have looked like if he hadn't had an airbag. But they definitely hit you hard. Tests have shown that an airbag hitting you is equivalent in force to being hit in the face by a heavy weight boxer.

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R33 GTS TURBO

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No doubt airbags are necessary, I fully agree that removing it would be stupid. I hate to think what my uncles face would have looked like if he hadn't had an airbag. But they definitely hit you hard. Tests have shown that an airbag hitting you is equivalent in force to being hit in the face by a heavy weight boxer.

Doesn't make sense why people keep putting after market steering wheels on. I would much rather hit a airbag then to hit the steering wheel - Know this from experience :domokun:

Hanaldo Grand Master

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Spot on ^

It's fair enough on an R32 or a car that didn't come with an airbag, I would get an aftermarket steering wheel as well. But I sure as hell wouldn't remove my airbag just for looks. R34 steering wheels are pretty good looking anyway, I would only replace it with an Evo wheel which has an airbag :domokun:

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