[s-cars] Seatbelt's food for thought

[Lee Levitt]

Current model Audis (and many other cars) also have pretensioning 
systems, but now they're pyrotechnic rather than mechanical.

Lee



-----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces+tfrank=symyx.com at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces+tfrank=symyx.com at audifans.com] On 
> Behalf Of
> Gabriel Caldwell
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 11:59 AM
> To: Jerry Scott; s-car-list
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] Some info for those wanting to swap to a B5 
> S4
> 6-speed
> 
> Procon ten is a system of cables wrapped around a bracket on the
> transmission and attached to the base of the seatbelts.  If you 
> are in a
> collision that is hard enough to push the transmission backwards, 
> that
> movement will provide extra tensioning on the seat belts.  In 
> European
> cars (specifically ones without a driver's airbag), a cable was 
> also
> attached to the steering column to pull it out of the way.  The 
> procon
> ten system was abandoned after all cars came with driver's and 
> passenger
> airbags as standard equipment in all markets.  In my opinion, 
> losing the
> bracket in any '93+ car (dual airbags) is no big deal.  If you 
> have a
> '92 and value your passenger then you might want to think about 
> keeping
> it.
> 
> Gabriel Caldwell
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Scott [mailto:jerryscott at earthlink.net]
> 
> Sent: April 25, 2005 11:49 AM
> To: s-car-list
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Some info for those wanting to swap to a B5 
> S4
> 6-speed
> 
> What function does the Procon ten bracket perform on the trany?
> Jerry
> 
> Gabriel Caldwell wrote:
> 
>> http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/62665.phtml
>> 
>> 
> 
>> 
>> Gabriel Caldwell
>> 
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