08-14-2007, 09:28 AM
Back story: I bought two Sparco Evos last year. I installed the driver's side with a used 5-point belt earlier this year, but haven't had the coin to do the passenger's side until now.
Yesterday's story: I go to OG, grab the Sparco mount, and then tell him I need another harness. The plan is to move my older 5-point to the passenger side and install whatever I buy for myself (yeah, I'm so selfish). Having been in a student's car with a 6-point, I'm intrigued by them... I ask how much extra they are over a 5-point ($5), and I'm settled. UNTIL the salesmen (a regular there, I know he knows his stuff, but maybe it was a bad day?) tells me that most clubs require equal safety equipment. In my mind, a 5-point is just as safe as a 6-point... just maybe a little less comfortable. Hell, even if it is *slightly* less safe, it's still in the freaking same ballpark... not like a 3-point v. 6-point. I make my case, but he won't have it. Maybe he knows something that I don't? He was really getting pretty in to it at this point. I explain to him that I'm the instructor so it's not like I'll have a passenger that hops in and isn't ok with the "unequal" safety. Shit, who in the world would even check that both belts are 5-point? Christ. Anyway, I ended up leaving with another 5-point.
Who is the crazy one? Me for bothering to write this up?
Yesterday's story: I go to OG, grab the Sparco mount, and then tell him I need another harness. The plan is to move my older 5-point to the passenger side and install whatever I buy for myself (yeah, I'm so selfish). Having been in a student's car with a 6-point, I'm intrigued by them... I ask how much extra they are over a 5-point ($5), and I'm settled. UNTIL the salesmen (a regular there, I know he knows his stuff, but maybe it was a bad day?) tells me that most clubs require equal safety equipment. In my mind, a 5-point is just as safe as a 6-point... just maybe a little less comfortable. Hell, even if it is *slightly* less safe, it's still in the freaking same ballpark... not like a 3-point v. 6-point. I make my case, but he won't have it. Maybe he knows something that I don't? He was really getting pretty in to it at this point. I explain to him that I'm the instructor so it's not like I'll have a passenger that hops in and isn't ok with the "unequal" safety. Shit, who in the world would even check that both belts are 5-point? Christ. Anyway, I ended up leaving with another 5-point.
Who is the crazy one? Me for bothering to write this up?
I Am Mike
4 wheels: '01 RAV4 (Formerly '93 Civic CX, '01 S2000, '10 GTI, '09 A4 Avant)
2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
No longer onyachin.
4 wheels: '01 RAV4 (Formerly '93 Civic CX, '01 S2000, '10 GTI, '09 A4 Avant)
2 wheels: '12 Surly Cross-Check Custom | '14 Trek Madone 2.1 105 | '17 Norco Threshold SL Force 1 | '17 Norco Revolver 9.2 FS | '18 BMC Roadmachine 02 Two | '19 Norco Search XR Steel (Formerly '97 Honda VFR750F, '05 Giant TCR 2, '15 WeThePeople Atlas 24, '10 Scott Scale 29er XT, '11 Cervelo R3 Rival, '12 Ridley X-Fire Red)
No longer onyachin.