FINALLY PROOF THAT THE DAMN EMBLEM WONT FLY OFF WHEN THE AIR BAG GOES OFF! YAY NO MORE WORRIES GUYS!



i also did the led havac mod and thought id share my other find, instead of just coloring in the ac and defrost buttons why didnt anyone think to just get matching leds? they look way better and are way more matching than a sharpie, and brighter!

 

Both look awesome! +rep for the LED insight. You gonna wear a visor to protect your face from that emblem in an accident though?

 

I had the same thought.

 

im sure that wuld b the least of my problems if i even got into an accident that made the air bag go off. Im not worried

im glad we have the same ideas.

 

i dont know that would be pretty bad fit that thing hit you in the face. it would kill you if it hit your in the right spot.


a kleenex box can kill you in a car accident

 

Ya. Just means u gota drive more careful. But ya see anything can kill u in a accident

 

myth was busted.

 

I knew you were a nerd Chris. lol

 

that makes me feel safer

 

^^Yeah but that is a cardboard box the emblem is a hard piece of plastic

 

Ya like i said. I just got to make sure it does do off then. Just gota drive safer and ive talked a feel people about it and they said that wuld b the least of my problems if the air bag actually ever went off.

 

Doesn't matter how safe you drive you can never account for other people and how they drive.

 

ya thats true, but ya wats more safe, having an air bag with a emblem on it or having a whole new steering wheel that doesnt have an air bag at all in it like alot of people have done on here?

 

I don't find it hard to imagine at all a scenario where you would have been totally fine in an accident but you end up with that emblem lodged in the back of your skull because the airbag shot it into your eye at 100mph or whatever. I don't think you should necessarily take it off just please make extra special sure it's held on super tightly.

 

ok i thought of this too, but wuldnt it just shatter if i put it on there really tight? like with epoxy or something? wuldnt a bunch of plastic be worse than the emblem flying off?

 

^I would use some sort of epoxy, you probably wouldn't need a whole lot. My understanding is that when the airbag goes off the middle of your steering wheel will split in half and out comes the airbag from it. That means the emblem would have a huge amount of force knocking it out of the way and if it was enough to overpower the oem adhesive it may end up somewhere you don't want it.

 

ya i might do it when i get a chance but for now ill be ok

 

Actually if you search for some interior pics of wrecked GDs the airbag comes out from under the center of the wheel. The whole center section peels upwards like it was hinged at the top, rather than splitting down the center. I would be guessing, but it would probably shoot the emblem into the headliner at 1,000,000 MPH rather than your melon. Remember also that there is already a hard plastic emblem embedded in the center of the wheel, if were that big of a deal, Honda wouldn't have done it. But, if it lodges in your throat and kills you in an accident, I never made this post LOL

 

Now thats some good info i needed. Now im not nearly as worried.

 

I'm really not trying to troll here, but can you link me to some of those pictures??? I've been scouring the internet for far too long and I can only find pictures of other cars and they all had the airbag compartment break open from the center. Also, the stock emblem is held in with tabs which the OP doesn't have on his new emblem, which is held on only with adhesive.