Woha,
Where did you hear that
PURE AND TOTAL BS? Are those people
SUPER RICH? If not, they are A)
lying or B) STUPID for not suing Ford!
PLEASE post links, and site valid cases.
Also, do you have any idea
at all of under
what conditions a Fox Stang will deploy? Clearly you don't. Those conditions are
very clearly defined in the Ford manual! Also, do you have any clue at all how many 80's and 90's Ford air bags have gone off in accidents, and the lives they saved? Again, you clearly do not!
Also, doing what you suggested is against
Federal law and against many
State and Local laws. If you're going to suggest and inform people of something that is
illegal, then
tell them that it is illegal!
FWIW: The
Fox air bag crash sensors are
not designed for crashes where a vehicle hits the side of the car straight on (at 90 degrees to the car). That's ~20% of the cases -
far from "most" of the time!. Also, any impact that is at an angle to car will require higher speeds. In VERY general terms, the air bag will go off at a speed of 30mph to 50mph if the car hits a staionary object. If the obejct is moving in the same direction, the speed must be greater. If the object is moving at the car, the speed is lower. And, again, the angle of impact makes a difference.
If all of that is "too confusing", just consider that something like ?5K -10K? air bags are deployed each and every day in this country.
From:
Q&As: Airbags
Frontal airbags:
In frontal crashes, airbags alone reduce driver fatalities by 29 percent and fatalities of right front passengers aged 13 and older by 32 percent. The fatality reduction in frontal crashes is larger for unbelted drivers (34 percent) as compared to belted drivers (21 percent). NHTSA estimates that the combination of an airbag plus a lap and shoulder belt reduces the risk of death by 61 percent compared with a 50 percent reduction for belts alone in frontal crashes.2
Aaron: Your best best is to yank the connector from the blue box, and the do a resistance check from the air bag, each sensor, and the safing sensor. That should show where the short is. Do a youtube and google search on
measuring resistance
Using a DVM
Using a VOM