Side Curtain airbag deployed?

[AdamAnt]

Originally Posted by Braces

Lets change the story a little. What if the DRIVER side airbag deployed at 50mph on a busy interstate. A little more serious? No?

That was my thought as well. If it had been a pot hole on the drivers side and not the passenger it could have caused an accident. Just glad no one else was in the car.

[go_a_way1]

Originally Posted by AdamAnt

That was my thought as well. If it had been a pot hole on the drivers side and not the passenger it could have caused an accident. Just glad no one else was in the car.

Kinda off topic here, but I am told in Canada at least we have a law regrading vehicle damage due to a poorly maintained road so if you hit a large pot hole and damage your car (say bend a tie rod) you can go to the government and they will pay to fix your car as we pay taxes to maintain roads and they dropped the ball on that so they take care of the repair. That is provided it is a reasonable claim

[ryoma]

Originally Posted by go_a_way1

Kinda off topic here, but I am told in Canada at least we have a law regrading vehicle damage due to a poorly maintained road so if you hit a large pot hole and damage your car (say bend a tie rod) you can go to the government and they will pay to fix your car as we pay taxes to maintain roads and they dropped the ball on that so they take care of the repair. That is provided it is a reasonable claim

lol good luck in getting money out of the US government. be glad they don't come and hound you to pay up.

[PandaSPUR]

Originally Posted by go_a_way1

Kinda off topic here, but I am told in Canada at least we have a law regrading vehicle damage due to a poorly maintained road so if you hit a large pot hole and damage your car (say bend a tie rod) you can go to the government and they will pay to fix your car as we pay taxes to maintain roads and they dropped the ball on that so they take care of the repair. That is provided it is a reasonable claim

I believe in the US, that all depends on the state government.

[go_a_way1]

Originally Posted by ryoma

lol good luck in getting money out of the US government. be glad they don't come and hound you to pay up.

hahaha Trump 2016 so Canada has to pay to build a wall (as per trump) to keep Americans in the USA that are trying to flea

[BRZnut]

Something does not seem right here. Air bags are suppose to go off in an accident, not when you hit a pot hole. This is a safety issue and could have caused an accident if it happened on the drivers side.


I say file a complaint with NHTSA and let the experts look into this:


https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/VehicleComplaint/

[Icecreamtruk]

Wait a second. Were you alone in the car? If you were, how come the passenger bag oppened? Isnt that one not supposed to go off unless there is actually some weight in the seat?

[BRZnut]

Originally Posted by Icecreamtruk

Wait a second. Were you alone in the car? If you were, how come the passenger bag oppened? Isnt that one not supposed to go off unless there is actually some weight in the seat?

I think that might be the front one but that's a good point.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Icecreamtruk

Wait a second. Were you alone in the car? If you were, how come the passenger bag oppened? Isnt that one not supposed to go off unless there is actually some weight in the seat?

Originally Posted by BRZnut

I think that might be the front one but that's a good point.

Dudes! Read the thread title.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by BRZnut

Something does not seem right here. Air bags are suppose to go off in an accident, not when you hit a pot hole. This is a safety issue and could have caused an accident if it happened on the drivers side.


I say file a complaint with NHTSA and let the experts look into this:


https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/VehicleComplaint/

Originally Posted by Icecreamtruk

If you bent a tie rod over a pothole at 50mph that was no small impact. Airbag didnt randomly deployed, it deployed to prevent whoever might've been sitting there to smash their head agaisnt the window. (pothole hit only 1 side of the car, so heavy lateral impact was probably what the car's systems received as info).

Originally Posted by Tcoat

This^
The sensors are not just a mechanical switch but a complex mechanism that sends signals to the whole air bag system. In your case the sensor detected an impact to the side of the car, sent a signal to the ECU which said it was moving at 50MPH and triggered the air bags. No impact or moving slower it would not have gone off so not really so random.
The side bags do not create a hazard for children anyway (unless they are leaning their head against the window I guess).

Do you have NHTSA on speed dial?
Air bags can and do go off under the right (wrong?) conditions. The guy managed to pull those conditions off.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by RichardsFRS

Back in the day we just banged our heads on the windows. I did this in my stang, hole wasn't big I was going nowhere near 50. When I turned the wheel on the bad rod I could feel the car pull up in that side. See if insurance will fix it

Or off the headliner because there was no seat belt holding you down.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by Icecreamtruk

Wait a second. Were you alone in the car? If you were, how come the passenger bag oppened? Isnt that one not supposed to go off unless there is actually some weight in the seat?

A cell phone in the passenger seat is enough to set off the seat sensors.

-alex

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by mav1178

A cell phone in the passenger seat is enough to set off the seat sensors.

-alex

The side curtains are not triggered by the seat sensor anyway. Part of their purpose is to protect a lone driver from debris and glass (or even the side of the car if hit hard enough) in a passenger side impact.

[rosol16]

My side airbag deployed when I was hit and no one was in the passenger seat as stated above it to protect the driver also granted it just gave me a headache and cost my insurance an extra 3k but still good to know that it works