Airbags

[MJM]

So I don't know much about cars so i'm going to ask this here. I recently go into a crash when some guy ran a stop sign and was going 70-80 KM/H. I smashed into the guy's car head on, and it completely wrote my car off.

Now i'm no expert, but given I hit the guy with the front end of my car, and did so with enough power that it wrote my car off, one would think that the air bags would have came out wouldn't they? They didn't in my case, and needless to say I'm more than a little pissed off. Should they have went off? I'm going to go talk to the dealership and don't want to sound like an idiot when I do.

[ken0042]

Yes, I would think it would go off in a 70 km/h crash. I've heard comments before of people thinking it went off in too slow of a crash.

Hope you are OK.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by MJM

So I don't know much about cars so i'm going to ask this here. I recently go into a crash when some guy ran a stop sign and was going 70-80 KM/H. I smashed into the guy's car head on, and it completely wrote my car off.

Now i'm no expert, but given I hit the guy with the front end of my car, and did so with enough power that it wrote my car off, one would think that the air bags would have came out wouldn't they? They didn't in my case, and needless to say I'm more than a little pissed off. Should they have went off? I'm going to go talk to the dealership and don't want to sound like an idiot when I do.

Airbags have a umber of different sensors, I don't remember how many of them have to be triggered for the airbags to go off. For example, front airbags aren't supposed to go of if the car perceives the crash as getting hit from the side.

I don't know whether they should have gone off in your case. If you're ok, and your head didn't snap forward, they might not have been triggered.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Yes, I would think it would go off in a 70 km/h crash. I've heard comments before of people thinking it went off in too slow of a crash.

Hope you are OK.

Yeah, I have a friend, his airbags went off when he slowly slid into a metal pole in a slippery parking lot. Like $3000 to replace them, he didn't.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

Yeah, I have a friend, his airbags went off when he slowly slid into a metal pole in a slippery parking lot. Like $3000 to replace them, he didn't.

The airbag light keeps coming on in my van. Apparently a sensor needs to be replaced. $1300. Not going to do it. The airbag may or may not go off in a crash, that is the only side affect.

[ricosuave]

^ wow, troutman wrote that?

[Displaced Flames fan]

Woops.

Thought this was an extension of the tube tops thread. Carry on.

[HOOT]

Many airbags don't go off because when the person is about to hit you head on they may slam on their breaks pushing their front nose down below where the senors are suppose to detect and go off.

This also happens a lot when people hit a telephone pole head on. If they hit between the sensors the air bags will not activate and you as the passenger are screwed.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

Yeah, I have a friend, his airbags went off when he slowly slid into a metal pole in a slippery parking lot. Like $3000 to replace them, he didn't.

Same thing happened to me, those airbags are killers(financially). Got into a semi-decent accident about 2.5 years ago, airbags deployed. I didn't think too much of it until the AMA towtruck guy told me my car was probably a write-off, just because it cost $2000 for the airbags alone and my car's only a '99 four door Cavi.

Thank God my dad's got a friend who's an army mechanic, dude's MacGuiver. He just went to Pick Your Part's and looked at old broken down late 90's Cavis to see if they had undeployed airbags. Found a couple, ripped er out, put em in my car. $600. Pick Your Parts are a Godsend for that kinda stuff, as long as you know someone who can put em in for ya.