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Somethings I read just tickle me does this happen to you? Today I am reading repair info and in it is a note about the cars Ballistic seat belt restraints. Well it set my mind a rolling first off it was a small. ** on the page. So it must not be to ballistic but I'd like to know if possible limb loss is a danger. Is it something mcgyver could use in a clever escape. Anyway it really amused me I will now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

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Was it referring to the material the belts were made from, or a device attached to the reel or latch? Def Leapard's drummer lost his arm nearly 30 years ago in a nasty wreck because of a seatbelt and I seem to remember hearing about how if you have your seatbelt around your gut instead of over your hips when you wreck, that can cause a number of internal injuries since there are no bones in thar area to support you in a violent wreck (like an Explorer rolling over).

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Ballistic SRS systems have been out for a while. When I was a Jaguar tech, I had to work on these. It's a very tiny charge that is activated when the computer senses the airbag being deployed. It shoots the seat belt buckle down to cinch it up. So in addition to the mechanical lock that activates when you shoot forward, it adds a little bit more "lock" by ballistically cinching up the belt. There is not enough there to cause any damage to you. They do not activate unless the airbag goes off, unless they changed the way they work.

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My favorite is reading instructions that are translated into english. "Rotate anti-clockwise remove and take out" well if I'm removing it; isn't that the same as taking it out?

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