Any Ideas? GMRS mobile radio mounting locations

Harold&Cat said:

This Jeep is our only vehicle with an airbag . I've been driving vehicles with no airbags since 1982 , and didn't start wearing a seatbelt until I was forced to by law .

Passenger dislikes airbags just as much as I do . We also grew up riding bicycles without helmets

To each his own .

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bucky said:

Some people are lucky. I would imagine that being thrown at 140mph they landed quite a bit away from the car. I bet they did not just walk away.

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JMT said:

The last real Wildman! JK.

Everyone has the right to prefer to be “thrown clear” and it’s a family joke around here. Sometimes that’s for the better.

A couple years ago there was a Camaro that wrecked just off the road from where we lived. It was estimated to be going over 140 miles an hour and did not even touch the brakes when they went over a curb and straight into a group of giant pine trees. I checked out the crash site after. There were literally millions of pieces of that Camaro all over the place and probably an area 50 yards long by 25 to 30 yards wide. The driver was belted in and he was killed on impact. The passenger was not belted in, thrown clear and ended up surviving. Insanity.

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suicideking said:

Having worked as an EMT for a few years, you CAN just leave it up to probability. Though your chances of wearing a seatbelt and living are much higher than if you don't and hope the 'gods of physics' somehow save you. Lots of instruction during training regarding what happens when you become a projectile.

Jerry Bransford often told a story of some idiot who didn't like to wear his seatbelt so he could jump out in a roll. Of course, that guy died when he jumped and the Jeep rolled on top of him. Darwinism...

If someone thinks it's safer to not wear a seatbelt, I just figure they're not very bright (and aren't going to be alive after their next car accident).

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Harold&Cat said:

Being retired from the Fire service and an EMT for 32 years I am very familiar with the different accident scenarios . This was before and after the addition of airbags . One also has to take into consideration that newer cars are designed to absorb the impact. With 3 major highways and 2 interstates in our response area I have worked more accidents than I can remember . That being said , I do wear my seatbelt by choice on and off road . It helps to keep me in the driver's seat where I need to be . The airbags , my preference is to not have them .

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thedustyboot said:

Jeep never came with a head unit and whoever took it out made an awful mess of the wiring for it... I'm usually with my wife or a friend so I prefer no music since me and whoever is passenger are always chatting. Plus I like to keep an ear out for any "new" noises

This is by no means a clean install but it fits my needs and keeps me safe on the logging roads and that's all I care about.View attachment 665561

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suicideking said:

Dang! No tunes on the trails?

I did see someone that mounted a bluetooth speaker to their roll bar. Not the best for quality, but better than nothing.

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JMT said:

For clarity, we wear our seatbelts and I’m not trying to convince people to not wear them. The family joke is the sarcasm in the statement, “I’d rather be thrown clear!” Yeah, good luck with that! It is rare that someone does better without a seatbelt than with one. I’m a proponent of seatbelts and should have made my post clearer that the story I told was the exception and not the norm.

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Harold&Cat said:

Being retired from the Fire service and an EMT for 32 years I am very familiar with the different accident scenarios . This was before and after the addition of airbags . One also has to take into consideration that newer cars are designed to absorb the impact. With 3 major highways and 2 interstates in our response area I have worked more accidents than I can remember . That being said , I do wear my seatbelt by choice on and off road . It helps to keep me in the driver's seat where I need to be . The airbags , my preference is to not have them .

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John Cooper said:

Please don't take this post wrong, it's not for sympathy, it's for giving both sides of the coin.


I am living proof that not wearing a seat belt saved a life.......

Wasn't buckled in when I totaled my Scrambler in 98 going 35mph. I was thrown clear, but the roll bar was pushed down into the driver seat headrest 4 inches. Sheriff said if I had been buckled in i would have died.

My 16 year old son is proof that seat belts don't save lives. He rolled a 81 Toyota 4x4 in 2001 and died, buckled in when the cab caved in on him going 30mph.

I wear a seatbelt but I surely don't trust it to save my life.

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