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DSG Paddleshifter Extensions....

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cmdrfire:

--- Quote from: Phil Mcavity on February 20, 2009, 08:15:25 pm ---
The last thing id be worried about in the event of a prang is my finger nails!!. in a major smash, your hands wont be still on the wheel and the airbags would be my 1st concern and the crumple zones do there job. Either one of those fails it would be good night nursey.

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I know I'm being something of a killjoy here, put it to my engineering background (I deal with high voltages and vehicle testing every day, so safety is priority 1).... say the crumple zones collapse as intended, the airbags deploy, the seatbelt restraint fires (seatbelts are the NUMBER ONE safety device in a car. Airbags and crumple zones help, but their impact on survival is much less than a seatbelt is), so you will survive. But, whilst you're being thrown around, your hand gets caught inside the ring of the wheel. Is that a place where you really want what is effectively a spinning blade? Then instead of a broken hand/wrist to worry about, you've got the possibility of lacerations in your hand or amputation of your fingers to worry about as well.
Anyway, it's just me bing a worrywort I suspect :)

RedRobin:
^^^^
I think that what you describe may indeed happen but isn't every accident different? I'm not convinced the spinning finger chopper is a definite foregone conclusion.

Rightly or wrongly I'm inclined to think positive and take my chances. Afterall, one's life is at risk every time you drive!

Hurdy:
If the air bags go off (which they invariably will in such a violent smash that would shear off the extensions). Then your hands would be blown away from the area anyway!

To force off the extensions there would have to be an impact sooo significant that any part of your hands in the area that is affected would be injured regardless of two bits of carbon fibre.

As Phil has said. I'd have more important things to think about if the collision was violent enough to displace the extensions.

What are the odds going to be anyway? I'll take my life into my hands and risk it for the .000000000000000001% possibility that they turn into mini shurikens! :signLOL:

cmdrfire:
Last note on this - I appreciate the odds of catastrophic failure occuring with those extensions are small, I was just raising the point. @Hurdy, I'm not suggesting that the things would fly off shuriken-style and decapitate you, merely that a limb may get trapped within a spinning wheel where they could do some damage. I'd ensure that the shear strength of the adhesive used was low enough such that a sideways force (ie from your hand) would cause them to come off the paddle, rendering them somewhat safer.

Hurdy:
I can see your point of view about a spinning steering wheel in the event of an impact, but I suppose it is like everything else in life, If you think about it too much, you would never do anything or say anything for fear of the impact it may have. :smiley:

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