<VV> Air Bag Flaw Re: Steering wheel air bag retrofit?

[frankcb at aol.com]

    Remember guys, the airbag (no matter what version or where/how it's installed) is ONLY good for the FIRST impact!!  After that FIRST impact, it instantly deflates and is no help for LATER impacts.  The obvious reason it was invented is for those drivers/passengers who couldn't be bothered to waste ALL that time reaching for the belt, putting it across themselves and clicking it into the socket.  When I started by installing seat belts into my 1958 Plymouth people would ask me if I "raced the car" otherwise why would I even NEED a seatbelt.  And after we bought our first Corvair (a 1965) I installed a child's belt in the back seat for our 3-year old son.  Now any car he drives doesn't BEGIN to move until ALL passengers have their seat belts buckled.
    So airbags do NOT replace seatbelts (unless you're only planning on being in SINGLE impact crashes).
Frank "the other one" Burkhard
        
 
 
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From: corvairduval--- via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
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Sent: Fri, Mar 27, 2015 11:22 am
Subject: Re: <VV> Steering wheel air bag retrofit?


Short answer, NO.

There are a lot of sensors (3 minimum) for the normal
steering wheel air
bag, and they are calibrated to the impact resistance
(foldability?) of the
frame rails they mount upon. Plus the "computer" to
decide when to fire the
air bag, sometimes this is the same box as the center
sensor in the tunnel
area.

There was a one year no electronics air bag that
could be retrofitted to a
non-airbag car. I think it was the 1995 Jeep Grand
Cherokee. It was a quick
effort by Chrysler to get an air bag into a non air
bag platform. The
following year they had enough time to get the electronic
system installed.
The squib was set off by a spring loaded ball bearing. Now,
how to adapt a
1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee steering when to a 64 column? Good
luck!

Frank DuVal

Original email:
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From: Ignacio Valdes
via VirtualVairs virtualvairs at corvair.org
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:02:58
-0500
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: <VV> Steering wheel air bag
retrofit?


So could a Corvair be 'reasonably' retrofitted with a steering
wheel
air
bag?

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