# Removing airbag warnings **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 20, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922 "2002-07-20T03:03:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/1 "2002-07-20T03:03:49Z")
My car has airbag warnings on both sun visors. I hate them. They’re ugly as hell in an otherwise gorgeous interior, and all the damn things say is “See warnings on other side,” in red, yellow, black, and white hideousness. I don’t care about the warnings on the inside, but I detest the outside warnings. I want them gone. So how can I remove these things? The warnings themselves are clearly some sort of decals, since I can see the clear edges if the light is right. The visors they’re stuck to appear to be vinyl. They must die. Please help me to kill them. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/2 "2002-07-20T03:27:44Z")
Get a pair of socks in matching or complementary colors to your car’s interior. Snip off the toes and sew the edges with flexible thread. Then slip them over the sun visors. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/3 "2002-07-20T03:34:50Z")
Do we have any suggestions from people who were not engineers on the Mars Climate Orbiter? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/4 "2002-07-20T04:16:44Z")
Amazingly, there’s a boatload of responses when I punched this into Google (Just for the hell of it). Apparently you’re not the only one who finds these things horrid. Since your post doesn’t say which car you’re talking about, it’s kind of fruitless to link to the different sites. Punch in the car + ‘removing airbag warning stickers’, and you should be loaded for bear. ---
**Author:** ![EmbarrassingDad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/embarrassingdad/32/5441_2.png) [@EmbarrassingDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmbarrassingDad)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/5 "2002-07-20T04:27:57Z")
It’s probably impossible to remove the labels without leaving a mark. If it really bothered me, I would take them them (the visors) to an upholstery shop. ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/6 "2002-07-20T13:31:11Z")
Try this link: [http://bimmer.roadfly.org/z3/messages/archive/msgsy1998w29/25002.html](http://bimmer.roadfly.org/z3/messages/archive/msgsy1998w29/25002.html) ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Luongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chris\_Luongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chris_Luongo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/7 "2002-07-20T13:37:09Z")
Measure your visors. Observe how they are mounted. Perhaps take one out and carry it with you. Go to a you-pull-it junkyard. Starting with older cars of the same manufacture as yours, search for some non-airbag visors of the same size, color, and mounting bracket. For example, I gave my father a Chevy Corsica for his birthday, which had flimsy visors, with an overstretched map-holder-elastic-thingy that hung down in the driver’s field of view. I installed a nice set of visors from an Olds 88 Royale, which are larger (but still fit), thicker, have no airbag warning, and are equipped with nice flip-up vanity mirrors on both sides. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/8 "2002-07-20T17:56:57Z")
What?! Get rid of the decals?! I **love** the icon of a crushed child on my sun visor. ---
**Author:** ![Swede\_Hollow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Swede\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swede_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/9 "2002-07-21T00:16:19Z")
My old car had “inadequate” airbag warnings (they were only printed on the top side of the visor, which was the norm in 1994 when I bought the car) so the manufacturer (Plymouth) had to mail out stickers to put on the underside saying to flip the visor over and read the warnings. The letter said it is illegal to sell (or re-sell) a car with airbags without the warnings on both sides of the visor. Is there a lawyer in the house to verify if that law is still on the books? ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/10 "2002-07-21T02:51:03Z")
IAAL, but I seriously doubt any such law ever existed. You might be liable for civil damages if you resell your car without the warnings and somebody gets hurt because of the missing warning, but that’s just a matter of common law and the whim of your jury. I’m willing to take that chance, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/11 "2002-07-21T03:17:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by minty green \* > Do we have any suggestions from people who were not engineers on the Mars Climate Orbiter?😛 Sock it to _me_? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/12 "2004-05-03T23:32:29Z")
> [@minty green](#): > > My car has airbag warnings on both sun visors. I hate them. They’re ugly as hell in an otherwise gorgeous interior, and all the damn things say is “See warnings on other side,” in red, yellow, black, and white hideousness. I don’t care about the warnings on the inside, but I detest the outside warnings. I want them gone. Dropped in while checking out just who you are, minty green, since we’re currently disagreeing on another thread. Frankly, I’m with you here, but for a different reason. I think the air bags should go, too. I’m constantly hearing of injuries that occur \*\*because \*\* of air bags, even fatalities! Now I’ve been driving since before seat belts were std. equip., and I installed them in my first car and all subsequent cars until they were mandated. But air bags scare the shit out of me! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-airbag-warnings/119922/13 "2004-05-04T02:24:15Z")
> [@Snakespirit](#): > > Dropped in while checking out just who you are, minty green, since we’re currently disagreeing on another thread. > > Frankly, I’m with you here, but for a different reason. I think the air bags should go, too. I’m constantly hearing of injuries that occur \*\*because \*\* of air bags, even fatalities! > > Now I’ve been driving since before seat belts were std. equip., and I installed them in my first car and all subsequent cars until they were mandated. But air bags scare the shit out of me! :eek: Don’t get me started on airbags. I would like to get hold of the Nazi who mandated them and treat him/her to the same gentle touch of an inflating airbag. Then I’d like to charge $2000 for the treatment. Sorry for the hijack. I would have to see the visor to tell. Most of them are fabric which would make it hard to remove cleanly. Getting them recovered by a professional is the worst case scenario so you have nothing to lose by trying. Find someone who can do the work first.