Car glove boxes

[Phlexor]

We have registration stickers that are put on the windscreen. They are very expensive stickers.

How much do they cost in the west? Over here I only have to pay $160 for 6 months.

$300 for 12 months.
Maybe we pay more here because we don't have toll roads.

more? when has $320 for 2x6 months been more than $300 for 12?

[Todd Bayliss]

Those passenger side airbags take up a lot of space as well.

I've always found it interesting that when airbags were optional, no one bought them.

[Icequeen]

Mom's "new" 95 Jetta doesn't even have one, all air bag. 

[SleepyDragon]

My car somehow manages to have a passenger-side airbag and an undersized, underslung glovebox that's barely big enough for a packet of tissues. There must be a lot of archaic motoring terms that go back to the horse & buggy era. We were taught in Driver Ed that the shelf just forward of the rear windscreen is called the "package tray," but that one should never place any packages (or anything else) thereon, for fear of decapitation in the event of a sudden deceleration.

[Phlexor]

My car somehow manages to have a passenger-side airbag and an undersized, underslung glovebox that's barely big enough for a packet of tissues. There must be a lot of archaic motoring terms that go back to the horse & buggy era. We were taught in Driver Ed that the shelf just forward of the rear windscreen is called the "package tray," but that one should never place any packages (or anything else) thereon, for fear of decapitation in the event of a sudden deceleration.

It is also referred to as the parcel shelf, which is pretty much the same term.

[renaeden]

We have registration stickers that are put on the windscreen. They are very expensive stickers.

How much do they cost in the west? Over here I only have to pay $160 for 6 months.

$300 for 12 months.
Maybe we pay more here because we don't have toll roads.

more? when has $320 for 2x6 months been more than $300 for 12?

Since I do maths. 

[Phlexor]

We have registration stickers that are put on the windscreen. They are very expensive stickers.

How much do they cost in the west? Over here I only have to pay $160 for 6 months.

$300 for 12 months.
Maybe we pay more here because we don't have toll roads.

more? when has $320 for 2x6 months been more than $300 for 12?

Since I do maths. 

You're that good huh? 

[garmonbozia]

I used to have a truck in which the entire glove box would fall off onto the floor if I tried to open it.  Got rid of the sonofabitch after the Reverse gear went out and what I thought was Neutral turned out to be Drive.  I was going to push it back out of a parking space and it started going forward at idle speed after I climbed out.  I literally had to dive back into it such that my foot landed on the brake.  I got it back into Park and then got out and looked at the front.  It was literally within an inch of dinging the car in the space in front of me.  I had driven it to about 170,000 miles on the odometer, but after that near-miss, I'd had enough of it.

One thing I'd like to know is how one can be certain that the airbags in an old car are still safe and reliable.  The car I now have is a 1995 model and the first I've owned with airbags.  I am aware that powder charges eventually decay, so how do I know for certain that it's really going to go off if needed, and not go off as the result of a bad sensor or wire or something?

[Christopher McCandless]

We have registration stickers that are put on the windscreen. They are very expensive stickers.

How much do they cost in the west? Over here I only have to pay $160 for 6 months.

$300 for 12 months.
Maybe we pay more here because we don't have toll roads.

more? when has $320 for 2x6 months been more than $300 for 12?

Compound interest

[Parts]

My service airbag light has been on and off over a year

[Callaway]

I used to have a truck in which the entire glove box would fall off onto the floor if I tried to open it.  Got rid of the sonofabitch after the Reverse gear went out and what I thought was Neutral turned out to be Drive.  I was going to push it back out of a parking space and it started going forward at idle speed after I climbed out.  I literally had to dive back into it such that my foot landed on the brake.  I got it back into Park and then got out and looked at the front.  It was literally within an inch of dinging the car in the space in front of me.  I had driven it to about 170,000 miles on the odometer, but after that near-miss, I'd had enough of it.

One thing I'd like to know is how one can be certain that the airbags in an old car are still safe and reliable.  The car I now have is a 1995 model and the first I've owned with airbags.  I am aware that powder charges eventually decay, so how do I know for certain that it's really going to go off if needed, and not go off as the result of a bad sensor or wire or something?

When you crank the car, the SRS light should come on when you turn the key on and then go off after a few seconds when the SRS completes its self-diagnostic.  If the SRS light stays on, then the SRS probably needs servicing.

[Parts]

Most of th time it's just a sensor that costs $300

[Callaway]

Most of th time it's just a sensor that costs $300

Thanks.  My SRS light just started staying on and I wondered how much fixing it was going to cost.

[Phlexor]

My service airbag light has been on and off over a year

There's a joke about your car telling you to have sex with your wife in there somewhere.

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origionally were actually for a place to put driving gloves