...do you like having them? I just cant get used to a car with em..my Sapp/Ferrari/M3 (taken out!)/Transit has not got em and i like it like that..i just have a fear they are gonna go off if i hit a curb..LOL

..i also cant call anywhere that has changed its name the new name...like our shopping precinct is call chequers...used to be stoneborough..i only know it and call it stoneborough most younger people say...where?

Getting old SUCKS

 

 

i don't like them either.

i think all cars should have a big spike coming out of the middle of the steering wheel - you'd slow down a bit then

 

 

would they actually go off IF you MIGHT hit a kerb or summit ?

 

nah, mine didnt go off even when i crashed

saying that though i believe a young lad died recently by a stone being thrown up into the grill on his fiesta setting his airbag off making him loose control of his car

 

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question130.htm

There go, enough links on how one works

 

Nuts, absolutley.. Nuts.

 

So you're a maidstone boy then!
The Chequers is pony, Fremlin Walk all the way!

 

The airbags went off in my Ibiza recently when I clipped a kerb. hardly even touched it as well. Apparently its a common thing in VAG cars

 

Phil your a plank, you dont know your cars got an Airbag until you hit something and it goes off.

The air bag should only go off when the speed is over 13mph and a crash sensor in the front bumper / front area is crushed i.e you hit something and a G loading is over a pre set value

So theres very very little danger of one going off unless you have crashed, and even then hey dont always deploy

 

theres a guy whoc alled me at work the other day asking for a new airbag,,,,,,,, 3 of em infact belive it or not and he said he just brished the curb


he then called back 5 hours later for a new wheel, suspention leg, drop link for the o/s front


he then mentioned he " brushed" the curb at 40ish mph


not as bad as the bloke who got towed in a few days ago though,,,,he curbed his wheel,,,,,,,, ripped the tyre, TOTALLY FOLDED the wheel and its S shaped now,,,,,, happened at 2am

wonder if he was a drink driver ???

 

Andy...the bloke at work had one go off for NO reason in a Ford Galaxy...shit him up big time luckily he was only goin slow!

 

Not in a VAG car. The bags go off if the sensors detec a sudden deceleration i.e. one wheel hitting a pot hole will set it off.