So now the axle bearings are exploding, the rims are oval shaped and the uni joints are too tight and most likely dry as a bone. I think im in pickle, god I fucking love country living, twenty miles to anything and your stuffed without a car, now i really wish i had put new tires on the 'rolla
You mean to accommodate how fat every one is? It sure as shit aint comfortable when you cant reach the blasted thing
Normally you should be capable of adjusting the seat to match your body size for a good grip on the wheel. Please keep in mind that airbags need a normal distance for maximum efficiency. To far away is bad as it will reduce its effectivity. But to close, and you might get injured by the airbag deploying.
Well, yeah, but who needs airbags? As the kids would say, “SMH”.They don’t make ‘em like they used too!
Safety steering columns are pretty much a standard nowadays, which is good because getting impaled by the steering columns in even moderate crashes tends to be quite fatal. Not quite sure why you would dislike airbags? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag Airbags have reduced the amount of people dying in accidents significantly. They also allow superior vehicle safety design: Two main things hurt or kill you in an accident: Parts of the vehicle penetrating your body G-Forces To minimize G-forces, you need a crumble zone that reduces the peak g-forces to a more surviveable level. Modern safe car are designed with multiple, increasingly hard crumble zones that are supposed to limit peak g-forces. At first, the crumble zone is relative soft (which also benefits struck pedestrians and cyclists) and makes small parking jostle more "comfortable". Often they plastic parts even act like a spring, returning to their original position post crash. Then the crumble zone becomes harder and harder as more kinetic energy needs to be killed. Finally, once the passenger safety cell is reached, crumbling has to stop as otherwise penetration into the people inside is very likely. The passenger safety cell not giving in (crumbling) however means that once it reaches the cause of the crash (for example the concrete wall) that all remaining kinetic energy is killed instantly, leading to tremendous G-forces that easily can be lethal. And this where modern seatbelts and airbags come in. Modern seatbelts will limit peak restraining forces, allowing your body to move forward a bit, greatly reducing peak G-Forces... but that move forward makes you much more likely to strike parts of the dashboard or the steering wheel. Airbags then cushion the impact significantly by slowing you down more "gently" and also spreading the load of the impact over a much wider area, reducing penetration and thus greatly increasing your survival chances. The combined work of modern seatbelts and airbags, allows for pretty rigid passenger safety cells which greatly reduces the risk of penetration. Side airbags meanwhile avoid the body of the driver or the passenger striking each other at the force of the crash acceleration. They also put a soft cushion between you and the pentrating steel column of the side pole impact test. Go and wath some crashtest videos: See how the head and body of the driver slams into the airbag and now imagine that it would slam into the steering wheel or dashboard instead. Both are things, you would rather want to avoid, but I promise you, you will favour the airbag very much nonetheless. Are you very large or very small? Unfortunatly if your body size is uncommon, you might need to give additional consideration to the car models that you want to look into. Some manufacturers and models are more generous in this regard while others are not.
5'3 on a good day with abnormally short arms, hence why i prefer to drive very old cars with the steering columns jutting far out from the dashboard
Too complicated yes, they save your life too. Now sorry to come off as macabre, but if your planning to drive an old car everyday, dont think of yourself if you happen to get into an accident, think of the people close to you, and how they will be affected should something ever happen. There are some real hard truths when come to that kind of lifestyle, and i say lifestyle purposely because you'll most likely need to work on it everyday, but perhaps the most important of all is how your family and/or friends would feel should you get involved in a serious crash without your properly engineered seatbelt and seat mountings, hidden structural rot, non existent airbags and absolutely no crumple zones. You would be driving a complete deathtrap unless you have completely stripped the suspension down and removed all the hidden rust, but its still dinosaur in safety, ie: None whatsoever. Case in point, my car rear ended a little Mazda suv at a speed of only about 35-40mph, and that was hard enough to bend the whole structure, who knows how much worse that could have been if that had been ten miles faster in impact, I shudder to think how bad it could have been had the bumper and subframe not slid under their car... Of course however, your young, you need to enjoy the things that aren't safe, that aren't smart, that definitely aren't sane. Don't be fooled however into thinking its a long term thing, that would be very difficult to keep up with the entropy. Especially more so difficult if your sucking your dinner through a straw because the car in front had abs and traction control and your car had dual pot master cylinder and a poorly modulated disc/drum setup My point being, do not pooh pooh modern safety equipment, yes its irritating to deal with bells, ding dongs and such loud wizardry, but stuff like airbags are very much there for a reason. Does it make maintenance incredibly difficult, yes it does. But i'd rather have an airbag than an easy-to-reach indicator relay in the event of a crash
Not to mention, that with all the modern cars in comparsion being basically tanks on wheels - a fact not helped at all by the stupid SUV trend - your changes of getting the short end of the stick are ever increasing. A lot of car magazines like Top Gear often have made crash tests between and old and a newer vehicle. The results.... were not pretty... for the people inside the old car that is. Stay safe.
definately the wagon, i have a 30 year old mercedes 200t wagon that i have cared for, for the last 2 years, it has never gone wrong once and is still safe, even by modern standards
