Y'know, the general reticence of insurance companies in coming to grips with the ruthlessness of airbag deployment and the costs associated with the aftermath of their deployment is hardly surprizing: THE EXISTANCE OF AIRBAGS IN PASSENGER VEHICLES IS THIER OWN HANDIWORK. Thanks to them we now have "safety devices" that are capable of killing or injuring.

 

If I were you, I'd sue their pants off for attempted murder.

 

I hate the insurance industry. Evil.

Y'know, the general reticence of insurance companies in coming to grips with the ruthlessness of airbag deployment and the costs associated with the aftermath of their deployment is hardly surprizing: THE EXISTANCE OF AIRBAGS IN PASSENGER VEHICLES IS THIER OWN HANDIWORK. Thanks to them we now have "safety devices" that are capable of killing or injuring.

 

If I were you, I'd sue their pants off for attempted murder.

 

I hate the insurance industry. Evil.

 

And who would I sue? Subaru or my insurance company?

And who would I sue? Subaru or my insurance company?

 

Your congressman! Oh wait, they make ALL the laws, so they wrote one that says you can't sue THEM.

 

How convenient.

That's weird, cuz there usually are two or three sensors, plus an arming sensor that is usually mounted in the center console or somewhere else close to the SRS control unit. Deployment requirements vary, but most of the stuff I've read is either two of the three sensors (typically one on each corner of the frame in the front, and one in the center, usually on the radiator support or the firewall) must close siultaneously, or one sensor and the arming sensor (I don't think all systems use an arming sensor, most newer ones do)

 

And when I set the air bags off in our 93 Sable my parents used to have, they had to replace ALL the sensors AND the damn computer in addition to the air bag units themselves (Somethign about the possibility of the computer being damaged and had that they had to replace it for liability reasons) ended up being almsost 3 grand! Cuz basically they are supposed to deploy in similar conditions to hitting a brick wall at 14 MPH

Same problem here. I bumped a tree at about 3 mph. Both bags, windshield and mirror. The mirror hit me in the head and caused bleeding. The repair costs were huge and it took about 7 months to fix due to parts inavailability.

Not a good experience!

 

On the other hand I was rear-ended the other night by a Toyota Corolla (European version) at about 30 mph; the bags in his car didn't activate.

 

 

Sweden

maybe there was a recall that was missed by carfax reguarding the sensors or any other part of the airbag system.