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Re: DANGER - Seat belt pre-tensioners can kill (I was lucky!)
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 5/29/2008

Hi Brad,

Your post left us prepared to be safe with a pre-tensioner on a Rav4 today. We tied the belt to a tire and stacked some on it (thanks Tony) and detonated it from 20'. This one was pretty wimpy; it sounded more like an Estes B4-2 model rocket motor (... Login to read more.