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Yeah, I would be surprised if the Type 44's had less safety
features than a Type 85.

In the Type 85's that I've seen, there was a big hollow tube
running across the middle of the door.  Obviously an "anti-
intrusion" type of device.

I've always thought it was impressive.  Not to mention the
rear shoulder belts back in '85 and before, while other cars I
remember such as an '87 Nissan Sentra had only lap belts.
Clearly, Audi did stuff before it was required by law.

I can't remember what the inside of the Type 44's door looks
like.

Ken

On 23 Apr 2002 at 23:35, Huw Powell wrote:
>
> > The real danger in type44 cars is side impacts; the ONLY side impact
> > protection is a strip of metal in the outer trim piece(yeah, you
> > read right.  Body trim piece.)  Side impact protection is a total
> > joke in our cars.
>
> Strange, I thought I remembered removing a pretty impressive aluminum
> I-beam sort of thing from the drivers door in an '87 5k I once was
> disassembling...
>
> The type 85's just have a pipe of sorts running front to back in the
> door.  I saw one car where one of the end bolts was gone and the bar
> was hanging down into the door bottom, though!