Advice please re query airbag failure.

nobbysn*ts

PintAndAPie wrote: »

OK then genius, would you mind posting at what point of inflation is an airbag designed to contact the driver or passenger of a vehicle?

Wiki seems fitting for the occasion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag

PintAndAPie

So if you've read the Wiki article, what part of the following do you disagree with?

'Originally Posted by PintAndAPie Because the way an airbag is designed is that you should hit the airbag as it is fully inflated, the explosive force required to fully inflate an airbag in 60 milliseconds would not be the kind of thing you'd want to be in the way of.'

facade

The seatbelt pretensioner is supposed to go off and snatch you away from the airbag before it deploys if you are too close to it, or pull you back into the seat if not.

Did the pretensioners go off? (Not sure how to tell if they are built into the reels, but if they are in the stalk with the latch it should be easy enough to see.)

You need someone to examine the car to see if the airbags should have triggered, maybe possible to interrogate the cars ecu to find out if there were any faults in the system, or even whether there was a trigger event.

A fractured sternum is quite common, and can be serious

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternal_fracture

Paradigm

You've probably all seen this but worth a repost, the explosive force of an airbag...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6YLIwzbbyM

I wouldn't want to be too close to be fair!

nobbysn*ts

Paradigm wrote: »

You've probably all seen this but worth a repost, the explosive force of an airbag...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6YLIwzbbyM

I wouldn't want to be too close to be fair!

I sit a few inches away from mine normally. Unless I drive from the back, it's very difficult not to be far away.

AdrianC

If you really want to know why the bags didn't go off, get the SRS (Supplementary Restraint System) ECU read by a diagnostic computer. It'll have stored all the details of the impact, and tell you exactly why the belt tensioners and airbags did/didn't go off.

I presume the system was self-testing OK, with the light coming on with the ignition then going off and staying off?

topdaddy_2

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

No, you just haven't a clue about airbags, and posting nonsense?

Not covering your self in glory there.

nobbysn*ts

topdaddy wrote: »

Not covering your self in glory there.

If you're in it for glory, that's for you. I'm just posting the correct advice for the op.

arcon5

I think we're all in unison when we say airbags are not toys, but dangerous objects. But they must be a better alternative than the steering wheel. They are there to significantly reduce the level of harm rather than cause no harm.

I know airbags can be complicated but surely a straight on crash at ops speed should have been sufficient enough to enable it.

As for sueing them, if it was faulty I wouldnt have thought it that simple and a matter of proving some injuries would have been prevented if it was working

photome

Its scary how close some people sit to the steering wheel