Emergency Safety Car Glass Hammer with Seatbelt Cutter
$6.95 With Free Shipping And Lots In Stock
A Important tool for car
Set yourself free from the danger by cutting the seat belt
You can break the car window in an emergency situation
Fixed in a holder, it will not fall even if the car bumps, and can be removed easily.
Material: ABS and chrome
Dimensions: 13 x 7.5cm
Reason enough for me
Me 3, no deal as per above
And pickup from my local in 30 minutes rather than waiting for delivery from China Queensland.
It’s an ok price for AU stock, as noted above is cheaper from china just longer shipping but I don’t think a couple of dollars for faster delivery is necessarily a bad deal
It's even cheaper from Repco, so def not a bargain.
“BuT iT’z aU sToCk tHaT mAkeZ iT a BaRgAiN!!”
No, no it doesn’t. And it’s a plastic piece of crap, there is no urgency for it to get here a week quicker, especially in this case where it is cheaper from big chain stores.
Repco has one for $5
Great for a bit of road rage.
Things like these are popular for vehicular break-ins sadly.
Good to know someone has tested them and they work.
$5 from Repco
I've seen emergency hammers with two points, this one has one point and a flat surface, so presumably it could be used like a "normal" hammer. But I can't think of any use for a "normal" hammer in a car, anyone know why they make the hammer have one flat face?
To knock the points off sharp bits?
Possibly, but in the videos I've seen, the entire window disintegrates and falls to the ground, unless it's a quarter-window that was glued into place.
Pretty much all windshields use laminated glass, which largely stays in one piece when broken. Kind of like if there's a sheet of window tinting holding all of the broken bits together.
Many side windows do shatter like you mention, but laminated glass is becoming more common there too.
Anyhow, I was thinking less about broken glass and more about mangled steel after an accident, and accidents I am assuming are the primary use case here.
but laminated glass is becoming more common there too.
Wow, I didn't know that, and I had assumed it was an ADR that side windows had to be the shattering type.
It's pretty stupid of the manufacturers to change to laminated glass, when electric windows make it uncertain that you'll be able to wind the window down to escape.
Electric windows made it harder to escape, and laminated glass makes it harder again.
What a bizarre solution in search of a problem.
Also, $5.73 inc. shipping https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/295282185716
STOP
Hammer time
Great for carjacking, highly sort after in Chicago!
I wonder how many people have been killed and maimed by unrestrained hammers floating around in their car during an accident.
As opposed to people saved from accidents so severe that the car doors are unusable, and yet not so severe that the person inside is not so injured or disorientated that they can't use the hammer effectively, or remember where it is.
The tool feels like something emergency services might use, not something to hide in the boot with your expired first aid kit.
You're assuming it is only used by the people inside the car.
What if you are in a parking lot, and see a person who has locked their keys and toddler inside a car, on a hot day? You can go to their rescue.
Or if you see an accident where the car's single occupant is unconscious, but their doors are locked?
Fair points. It still seems to be a very specialized situation to stock the car for, and an odd reason to spend money on a tool when the lug wrench or jack crank handle with your spare tyre should work nearly as well.
True, although in my car I'd have to unload the boot to get to those tools. If I wanted something to stock my car with, I'd have wire cutters and an automatic centre punch.
I've read that automatic centre punches work better than hammers when the glass is under water. The wire cutters will cut through seatbelt, but admittedly more slowly than the device in this deal. But both tools are usable for their normal uses as well, I'd keep them in the glovebox in a roll with other tools.
I've also heard that the prongs on seat headrests make adequate glass breakers, when struck in the corners of windows.
Edit: headrests may not work, and the technique I described is incorrect. Using a different technique, some youtube videos show they work, others show they fail:
Failing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20RQMN1hZgU
Working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZTa8Nh0VlE (not in English, but just watch).
Good to see the op get hammered for posting another dodgy deal
Cheaper elsewhere…
Cheaper elsewhere, from multiple sources, including local B&M stores. This is a crummy attempt at a deal.
Rep you need to up your game, or you will be banned. That's three in a row now that have been nuked.
This doesn't appear to be a bargain, you can buy similar on Aliexpress for less -