Airbags

Jessica | August 24, 2008 7:15 am

I am back in San Diego for a few days though also back to work at KJAZZ.  I love having a job I can do from outside the office.

I am constantly astounded by the number of people who make comments about beds when I tell them I’m at my parent’s place.  “Must be happy to sleep in a real bed for a change.”  I always get the same comments about hostels as well.  Come on people, What do you think I have in my car?  It may not be a “real” bed, but I assure you it’s pretty darn comfortable.  Certainly more comfortable than any hostel bed I’ve ever had.

/rant

One of my projects for this weekend down in San Diego was to take my car to the dealership and have them reset my airbags.  When I took out the front passenger seat I had to unhook the cables that run between the weight censor in the seat and the airbags.  Unfortunately, it turns out that doing so disables the airbags.  I thought they’d just be able to reset them, but apparently it creates an open circuit and it can’t be done.  So, thanks to the fact that I have no front passenger seat, I also have no air bags and Toyota can’t do anything about it.

The guy at Toyota did make a suggestion for finding someone who can fix it though.  When I get back to LA I’m going to try to find a company that makes modifications to cars for the handicapped.  Since they take out seats all the time they may have a solution.  In the meantime, I’ll just have to hope I don’t need them.

2 Responses to “Airbags”

Holding wrote a comment on August 25, 2008

I could make that same rant about beds. I love my bed in my van, and I prefer it! I’m always a little uncomfortable after a night in a “real” bed, but I sleep great and wake up great in the van.

Jessica wrote a comment on August 28, 2008

I’ve heard of RVers having the same complaint too. People are offended when RVers come to visit, but insist in staying in their RV rather than the guest room. If people don’t think that RVers have real beds, us van and car-dwellers have a long way to go.

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