# Airbag mod

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 18, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872 "2017-09-18T03:53:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/1 "2017-09-18T03:53:27Z")

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![21762064_1586978884698159_3504774407411682801_n](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/6/6c77997d4277cd4235be0d4e4bbd2b1a40925b02.jpg)

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**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/2 "2017-09-18T13:56:30Z")

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When I was a kid, we called that a rock collection, not a medicine cabinet. 😉

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**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/3 "2017-09-18T14:25:15Z")

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How many are familiar with what a CLAYMORE is?

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**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/4 "2017-09-18T14:33:36Z")

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I know what a claymore is & I would not want one that close to me at highway speed’s.

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**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/5 "2017-09-18T14:55:39Z")

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The original was a Scottish two handed broadsword. The modern claymore is a remotely detonated directional anti-personnel mine. The front is labeled ‘This side towards enemy’ one of those warnings made necessary because someone didn’t.

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/6 "2017-09-18T14:56:29Z")

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> [@Rod\_Knox](#):
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> How many are familiar with what a CLAYMORE is?

You’re right. These rocks would become fragmentation fragments in the event of an airbag discharge, probably with enough of a charge behind them to fill the driver’s torso with rocks.

I plead with the OP, remove the stones in the photo. They’ll kill you in an accident that the airbag might have otherwise saved you from.

For those who never served, a Claymore is a mine used in warfare to kill enemy combatants, an explosive designed to drive fragments into their bodies, and perhaps take off a leg or two. I offer my personal thanks to Rod for pointing out the danger of gluing rocks to one’s airbag cover.

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**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/7 "2017-09-18T15:15:21Z")

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I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that the picture is not actually @keith’s car. 😉

I don’t see him as the PT Cruiser type anyway.

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**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/8 "2017-09-18T15:42:16Z")

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I have seen some unusual and even flabbergasting interior decorations on automobiles and some were potentially dangerous but airbags have made bric-a-brac into dark humor. It’s unbelievable but customers have become hostile when I pointed out that the foot prints on their dashboard meant someone wasn’t aware of what an airbag could do.

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**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/9 "2017-09-18T16:43:49Z")

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Looks like the product of 3 weeks 24/7 in a rock tumbler…

I can see it now, no one TOLD me it not to do it, how was I supposed to know it was dangerous?  
The result- another label on the visor- DO NOT AFFIX ROCKS TO THE AIRBAG COVER.

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**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/10 "2017-09-18T16:52:38Z")

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**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/11 "2017-09-18T17:23:05Z")

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FYI, I got it off facebook. It was from a “humor” page.

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/airbag-mod/107872/12 "2017-09-19T00:48:04Z")

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> [@keith](#):
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> FYI, I got it off facebook. It was from a “humor” page.

I just hope to God it isn’t real. It gives me the willies.

Years ago in NH there was an infamous small contractor (and character) who called himself “the Chief”. I met him once when looking for a small contractor and he’d covered every square inch of the inside of his pickup, including the seat, sun visors, steering wheel and shifter, with pin-on buttons. He was a bit “odd”. That was before airbags, but if he’s still around his airbag cover is probably covered with metal pins.
