[Libloather]

Replacing air bags with video screens illegal

How about a laptop - so I can stay online while I drive? Sounds reasonable...

[Abathar]

oops, that was suppose to be on another board, we started the party early today...

[Hatteras]

"If you have a DVD player there instead of an air bag, it's not going to protect you in a crash."

...not even if it's showing Chris Matthews? Huh?....... OH! DOH! It said AIRbags, not WINDbags..... My bad.

[Conservomax]

thank nader for this one.

[PAR35]

Rae Tyson

My car doesn't have an airbag, and there is nothing that she or anyone else in the current "New Deal" administration can do about it.

[mlbford2]

I like the episode where they replaced the airbags with a bong. I think that happened.

[TheBattman]

Big Brother knows best.

Personally - I think the correct thing to do would be to for customers to be allowed to sign a waver. Then if they car owner is hurt/killed due to lack of air bag, they cannot hold the customizer liable for removing the air bag.

But no - the government has to dictate everything.

[Rate_Determining_Step]

This is a dangerous precedent. Probably 90% of all parts on any car could be deemed "safety equipment".

I can see a day when some Congresscritter's brother-in-law with a dealership creates the following law:

"No safety related parts can be replaced by a dealership that hasn't been certified by the manufacturer. And no car may leave the dealer service control with safety defects."

You have been warned.

[Brian Allen]

<< If you have a DVD player there instead of an air bag, it's not going to protect you in a crash. >>

Let US all thank God the feral gummint has someone on its dole to point that out to US, eh?

I mean -- where'd we otherwise be?

[Atlas Sneezed]

It's interesting how the feds, who are supposedly enforcing "public safety" manage to harass someone who is choosing to substitute one form of pleasure for a little safety.

Yet the feds manage to ignore every suspension shop that jacks up trucks to heights that put their bumpers at the chin level of THE PUBLIC, which defeats most vehicle safety structures

[rs79bm]

I could understand how the autobody shop had no understanding that this was an offense, but for the illegal act to pass through the higher-ups at MTV is simply astonishing.

/sarcasm off

[libs_kma]

I be thinking the Feds be havin it against my home boys..
*pointing downward from 3 feet over my head* WHUD UP???

[JudyinCanada]

My nephew is going to LA with a female friend of his to get her Cadillac Escapade painted by this bunch.

She paid $90,000 for the vehicle, then had $70,000 worth of upgrades done. Now it is being shipped to LA for one of their paint jobs. It is one of four vehicles.

She pays my nephew (very well) for overseeing her numerous little projects. She is a recent lotter winner...11 million.

Man, imagine what useful things could be done with that money.

[Criminal Number 18F]

What a great country! There's no crime anymore, and so all the idle cops can go around busting shops that do dumb stuff to dumb people's cars.

Some of you folks would probably rather have them chasing mild scofflaws like axe murderers and baby rapers. Well, that just shows how wrong you are. The number one threat to America is tastelessly decorated automobiles, and it needs to be crushed without mercy.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F