View Poll Results: While Driving your CL, are you waering your seatbelt?
Yes
132
89.80%
No
5
3.40%
Depends If there is a cop there
7
4.76%
How could I get Roadhead with a seatbelt
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Poll: Do you Wear the Seatbelt in the CL
05-17-2002, 09:33 AM
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I always wear my seatbelt although the CL's seatbelt pisses me off on a daily basis because it stays locked up way after I've finished stopping and am already going again. I can't lean forward until I try at least three times and then it finally unlocks and I can move around again. Fucking annoying. Especially since it locks up before I have a chance to lean forward to look out to the sides when coming to a crossroad. I have to either take off the seatbelt or at least slip off the shoulder strap so I can lean forward enough to see down the angle.
05-17-2002, 09:53 AM
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ALWAYS wear it.
Take a walk around a junkyard sometime and look at all the indentations in the windshields from people who don’t.
Some of those people are DEAD now too.
I also refuse to drive with a passenger who doesn’t belt up.
I don’t want MY insurance paying for some DUMBASS’s injuries.
Shawn S
Take a walk around a junkyard sometime and look at all the indentations in the windshields from people who don’t.
Some of those people are DEAD now too.
I also refuse to drive with a passenger who doesn’t belt up.
I don’t want MY insurance paying for some DUMBASS’s injuries.
Shawn S
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05-17-2002, 09:55 AM
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Always. I get the locked thing sometimes. The problem I have with it, is the height. The way I sit, the belt is cutting my through. I have a seatbelt pad, which has helped though. I hear the 2003's are now height adjustable.
05-17-2002, 09:58 AM
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I was caught for not having a seatbelt last 2 years ago, but luckily I got a warning ticket. This is what the officer told me "Sir you dont want yourself flying out of your windshield right?" since then I always buckle up...
05-17-2002, 09:59 AM
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Re: Poll: Do you Wear the Seatbelt in the CL
Originally posted by pgatour1
Well Do You, punk?
I usually do but never in the CL, it is so uncomfortable. So i'm a No to this question.
Well Do You, punk?
I usually do but never in the CL, it is so uncomfortable. So i'm a No to this question.
05-17-2002, 10:13 AM
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To the best of my knowledge, the only person I know of killed in a CL did not have his seatbelt on. We have heard of a lot of accidents and not many injuries when with seatbelts.
05-17-2002, 01:41 PM
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No matter what car I am in I always buckle up. Uncomfortable or not it doesnt matter, you never know what can happen or what idiot is out there
05-17-2002, 02:08 PM
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Oh man, people who don't wear seatbelts today are dumber than bikers who don't wear helmets.
What's the point of having this new, modern car with up-to-date safety equipment and 4 airbags if you don't do the most basic thing and wear a seatbelt?
I've seen the human results of many a car accident and I can't remember anybody who was seriously injured while wearing a seatbelt. Of those that didn't, I remember a bunch of critical injuries, lost limbs, one near decapitation, and multiple deaths.
Personally, I survived one accident where I hit the guardrail 3 times mainly because the seatbelt held me in the car.
For those that think the belt is too tight...DUH! It's supposed to be tight. You think Michael Schumacher loosens up his 5 point harness before a race because it's "too tight?"
What's the point of having this new, modern car with up-to-date safety equipment and 4 airbags if you don't do the most basic thing and wear a seatbelt?
I've seen the human results of many a car accident and I can't remember anybody who was seriously injured while wearing a seatbelt. Of those that didn't, I remember a bunch of critical injuries, lost limbs, one near decapitation, and multiple deaths.
Personally, I survived one accident where I hit the guardrail 3 times mainly because the seatbelt held me in the car.
For those that think the belt is too tight...DUH! It's supposed to be tight. You think Michael Schumacher loosens up his 5 point harness before a race because it's "too tight?"
05-17-2002, 02:41 PM
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I used to hate to wear seat belts especially on my way to work in the morning with dress shirt and tie on (WRINKLE CITY).... HOWEVER, after watching my cousin get into a fender bender and his friend broke his arm and bruised his head on the right piller from just a 20 mph hit. I was like SEAT BELT all the way baby! 
05-17-2002, 04:02 PM
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Originally posted by Shawn S
ALWAYS wear it.
Take a walk around a junkyard sometime and look at all the indentations in the windshields from people who don’t.
Some of those people are DEAD now too.
I also refuse to drive with a passenger who doesn’t belt up.
I don’t want MY insurance paying for some DUMBASS’s injuries.
Shawn S
ALWAYS wear it.
Take a walk around a junkyard sometime and look at all the indentations in the windshields from people who don’t.
Some of those people are DEAD now too.
I also refuse to drive with a passenger who doesn’t belt up.
I don’t want MY insurance paying for some DUMBASS’s injuries.
Shawn S
I've got a 1st Gen.....don't really have any retraction problems or locking-up problems. The only problem I have is that the belt catches on the seat-flip lever when I'm putting it on.
As for road-head......that damn console is too high (or so I've heard the complaint of)
05-17-2002, 08:43 PM
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It's really a lot more than just road head. Let me list some things that can happen to you when your car stops and you don't.
Chest hits steering wheel (don't count on that airbag alone) which leads to broken sternum, ribs, cardiac contusions, aortic transections, pulmonary contusion and hemorrhage.
Legs fly under pedals, leading to traumatic amputations of the feet.
Knees hit dash, ends up in fractured pelvis, fractured femur, knee dislocations.
Abdomen hits steering wheel and you get ruptured small bowel, liver and splenic lacerations and disruptions, renal injury.
Basically, it's all bad stuff that you don't want to happen to you.
Bottom line, wear the seatbelt.
I've NEVER EVER heard anybody say, "Boy, I really wish I hadn't been wearing my seatbelt when I rolled my car 4 times on the freeway."
Chest hits steering wheel (don't count on that airbag alone) which leads to broken sternum, ribs, cardiac contusions, aortic transections, pulmonary contusion and hemorrhage.
Legs fly under pedals, leading to traumatic amputations of the feet.
Knees hit dash, ends up in fractured pelvis, fractured femur, knee dislocations.
Abdomen hits steering wheel and you get ruptured small bowel, liver and splenic lacerations and disruptions, renal injury.
Basically, it's all bad stuff that you don't want to happen to you.
Bottom line, wear the seatbelt.
I've NEVER EVER heard anybody say, "Boy, I really wish I hadn't been wearing my seatbelt when I rolled my car 4 times on the freeway."
05-17-2002, 09:50 PM
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Always. Seen too many people real fucked up because they didn't wear theirs. I am not having any of the ratcheting issues you guys speak of. Did this problem develop over time or was it always there?
05-17-2002, 11:13 PM
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That's right, all it takes is to look at the plum-sized knot on someone's head after they hit the pillar, I guarentee you will never ride in the front seat beltless ever again.
05-17-2002, 11:35 PM
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Check out what it says under my name 
Always wear it no matter what car or whose car. My friend hit a tree w/o a seatbelt on and got airlifted to Jackson Memorial Trama Center. He got a metal pole in his leg now. Learned a lesson there.
Always wear it no matter what car or whose car. My friend hit a tree w/o a seatbelt on and got airlifted to Jackson Memorial Trama Center. He got a metal pole in his leg now. Learned a lesson there.
05-18-2002, 01:58 AM
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I will NEVER drive with my seatbelt off!!!!! You may be the safest driver on the road, but if some drunk azz mofo hits you head on, and you don't have you seatbelt on, you are dead meat, even with the airbag!!!!!! Life is too short to die, just because you were a little uncomfortable!!!!
05-18-2002, 01:17 PM
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Originally posted by rouxeny
I've NEVER EVER heard anybody say, "Boy, I really wish I hadn't been wearing my seatbelt when I rolled my car 4 times on the freeway."
I've NEVER EVER heard anybody say, "Boy, I really wish I hadn't been wearing my seatbelt when I rolled my car 4 times on the freeway."
05-19-2002, 12:40 AM
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Originally posted by danny25
I always wear it, I really don't have a problem with the CL's belts, except I can't adjust the hight of it like I could in my Ford Ranger!
I always wear it, I really don't have a problem with the CL's belts, except I can't adjust the hight of it like I could in my Ford Ranger!
) But, really the belts in the CL never botherd me...
I guess this is one of the stupidest threads I have ever been a part on...
05-19-2002, 06:42 AM
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Originally posted by JasonT
Always. I get the locked thing sometimes. The problem I have with it, is the height. The way I sit, the belt is cutting my through. I have a seatbelt pad, which has helped though. I hear the 2003's are now height adjustable.
Always. I get the locked thing sometimes. The problem I have with it, is the height. The way I sit, the belt is cutting my through. I have a seatbelt pad, which has helped though. I hear the 2003's are now height adjustable.
05-20-2002, 01:45 AM
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I used to argue with my ex-wife (but then she became ex), because she wouldn't want to put the passenger seatbelt on. I wouldn't drive until she did, and we went through that scene a few times. She explained that she could put her arms out (demonstrating by holding her arms out to the dash) if a problem popped up. I explained that a 30 mph crash has the force of dropping off a three story building. I asked her if she figured that putting her arms out as the pavement approached would do the job. We didn't have that argument anymore after that.
It helps people sometimes to get a little perspective on the problem in a way they can relate to.
It helps people sometimes to get a little perspective on the problem in a way they can relate to.
05-20-2002, 06:54 AM
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I agree that this is an incredibly stupid thread, but if you look back, plenty of people have said that they don't wear their seatbelts.
In which case, it doesn't seem so stupid anymore.
Somehow, in high school, wearing your seatbelt (as a passenger) wasn't considered very cool. It showed you had no trust in the driver or something. But then again, high schoolers aren't known to have the best decision-making abilities.
In which case, it doesn't seem so stupid anymore.
Somehow, in high school, wearing your seatbelt (as a passenger) wasn't considered very cool. It showed you had no trust in the driver or something. But then again, high schoolers aren't known to have the best decision-making abilities.
05-20-2002, 02:09 PM
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An interesting fact for those who don't make their passengers wear the belt. Its unsafe for the other people in the car who are wearing theirs: unsecured passengers become lethal flying objects in a crash. In the seat-belt video they show pics of people who died securely belted in becuase they were struck in the head by unsecured passengers.
T.V. news reported last week seat-belts reduce death/injury by 60% whereas the air bag only adds another 10% reduction.
T.V. news reported last week seat-belts reduce death/injury by 60% whereas the air bag only adds another 10% reduction.