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Trinkets for motorists who are ashamed to pour money
It is true that men love their cars. Many of them do not spare money for various “bumps”, making an iron friend more comfortable. But not all car accessories are equally useful.
A lot of what happens in the car is not worth the money. And some especially “lucky” purchases are harmful or even dangerous for their owners.
The prototype of a modern air ionizer appeared in the USSR in 1931. But unambiguous scientific evidence of the benefits of saturation of air with oxygen ions is not yet available.
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In addition, the power of appliances running from the lighter is usually simply not enough to create any noticeable effect on the air in the cabin.
On sale you can find scrapers with heating for cleaning the glass of the car. It is claimed that such a gadget can easily cope even with a thick crust of ice without scratching the glass. However, most motorists, to put it mildly, are not at all enthusiastic about the novelty. Essentially, these are ordinary mechanical scrapers with questionable weighting as a heating element and an inflated price.
“The heating element heats up quickly, but the scraper itself does not heat up. As long as he waited, the scraper itself remained cold, although the spiral under it was hot. And, of course, he did not melt any ice. In the trash ..., writes one of the lucky owners of the heat scraper.
There was a time when the car fan for the interior of the car was an indispensable gadget. But today, things have changed.
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Most new cars are equipped with air conditioning. Buying such a device would be a waste of money.
“This is a modern and inexpensive element of car tuning, with which your car will never go unnoticed,” the ad tells us. The equalizer does not even need to be connected to the tape recorder, because it is equipped with a built-in sound sensor.
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However, it is worth remembering that the installation of a musical gadget limits the view through the back window. And in the dark, in addition, it will distract drivers driving behind cars, which may end with a traffic accident report.
Radar detectors gained wide popularity among Russian motorists at the end of the last century. Some say that they saved a lot of money on fines thanks to this gadget. Others complain of endless false positives from similar devices in other cars or supermarket doors, for example.
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Meanwhile, today expensive anti-radar can easily replace applications for a smartphone. All of them do not cause difficulties in installation, and some are also free. List only some common: "Anti-Radar Arrow", "Yandex Navigator", "Radar detector", "GPS Anti-Radar".
In modern models of cars, sensors are installed that signal whether seat belts are inserted into the socket. To deceive the security system and get rid of the intrusive flashing of the indicator on the dashboard, some drivers insert a plug into the place of the regular lock.
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At the same time, someone does not see the benefits of belts, and someone believes that he will be saved in any case by an airbag. That’s just experts are tired of repeating: the pillow is just an additional safety measure, while the belt is its basis. If it is not fastened, the speed of the triggered air cushion is summed up with inertia. In such a situation after a head-on collision, a person has almost no chance of surviving.
A lot of what happens in the car is not worth the money. And some especially “lucky” purchases are harmful or even dangerous for their owners.
The prototype of a modern air ionizer appeared in the USSR in 1931. But unambiguous scientific evidence of the benefits of saturation of air with oxygen ions is not yet available.
View this post on Instagram
Publication from | Air purifiers (@directjapan25)
In addition, the power of appliances running from the lighter is usually simply not enough to create any noticeable effect on the air in the cabin.
On sale you can find scrapers with heating for cleaning the glass of the car. It is claimed that such a gadget can easily cope even with a thick crust of ice without scratching the glass. However, most motorists, to put it mildly, are not at all enthusiastic about the novelty. Essentially, these are ordinary mechanical scrapers with questionable weighting as a heating element and an inflated price.
“The heating element heats up quickly, but the scraper itself does not heat up. As long as he waited, the scraper itself remained cold, although the spiral under it was hot. And, of course, he did not melt any ice. In the trash ..., writes one of the lucky owners of the heat scraper.
There was a time when the car fan for the interior of the car was an indispensable gadget. But today, things have changed.
View this post on Instagram
Posted by Auto Products (@instrument_nabor_aktobe)
Most new cars are equipped with air conditioning. Buying such a device would be a waste of money.
“This is a modern and inexpensive element of car tuning, with which your car will never go unnoticed,” the ad tells us. The equalizer does not even need to be connected to the tape recorder, because it is equipped with a built-in sound sensor.
View this post on Instagram
Publication by AUTO AKSESSOURA/BISHKEK (@sonunauto)
However, it is worth remembering that the installation of a musical gadget limits the view through the back window. And in the dark, in addition, it will distract drivers driving behind cars, which may end with a traffic accident report.
Radar detectors gained wide popularity among Russian motorists at the end of the last century. Some say that they saved a lot of money on fines thanks to this gadget. Others complain of endless false positives from similar devices in other cars or supermarket doors, for example.
View this post on Instagram
Post by AutoFriends (@autofrends)
Meanwhile, today expensive anti-radar can easily replace applications for a smartphone. All of them do not cause difficulties in installation, and some are also free. List only some common: "Anti-Radar Arrow", "Yandex Navigator", "Radar detector", "GPS Anti-Radar".
In modern models of cars, sensors are installed that signal whether seat belts are inserted into the socket. To deceive the security system and get rid of the intrusive flashing of the indicator on the dashboard, some drivers insert a plug into the place of the regular lock.
View this post on Instagram
Posted by BRELKY ️ STONES (@brelkiavtomobilnye)
At the same time, someone does not see the benefits of belts, and someone believes that he will be saved in any case by an airbag. That’s just experts are tired of repeating: the pillow is just an additional safety measure, while the belt is its basis. If it is not fastened, the speed of the triggered air cushion is summed up with inertia. In such a situation after a head-on collision, a person has almost no chance of surviving.
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