More airbag questions

[Brett Dikeman]

I would -seriously- not recommend this, both for your personal safety 
and the warrantee on your car.

-the airbag may be designed for the larger interior volume of the A6, 
and may hit the interior of the car in ways it shouldn't.
-the airbag system itself may be completely different(in fact, I can 
almost guarantee it is, between 3 model years and two different 
platforms.)
-as soon as you disconnect the airbag, a code will get stored on the 
controller module, and you'll have to get it cleared by a dealer, or 
maybe find someone with a scan tool.  Questions will get asked, and 
you can kiss the warrantee goodbye
-You may hook up the different airbag only to find that the 
controller doesn't "like" the different bag(I'm sure there is some 
method the controller uses to make sure the connection to the trigger 
is ok); a scan tool won't "fix" that kind of problem
-how do you know the bag will deploy in an accident?  Maybe the 2000 
airbag requires a lot more "juice" to fire, but your '97 controller 
just doesn't have the oompf?  Won't find out, will you.  Would you 
trust your life to the opinion of a lister who claims to know they 
-are- compatible?
-the steering wheels probably won't mechanically swap anyway
-if you ever sell the car, you could be held liable for any of the 
above malfunctions, and that liability could be quite substantial, 
maybe even involving the life of another person, if the airbag 
accidentally deploys, or fails to deploy in an accident.

I think my position on this subject is pretty clear.  You just don't 
screw around with airbag systems.  Too much stuff that's too 
important(and too dangerous) that too few people know anything about.

Brett


At 10:03 PM -0700 9/6/00, Pat, Andrea & Theo Quinn wrote:
>Can someone tell me if the airbag from a 2000 A6 Sport wheel would be the
>same as one on a 1997 A4 Sport wheel?
>Pat
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