RE: Audi recalls 900,000 cars!! (airbags)

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

I remeber that Mercedes decided to crash test one of the first cars
equipped with airbag. An '80 or '81 S-class. It was 93 or 94, so the car
was about 13 years old then. The airbag deployed with no problems.

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sean Ford [SMTP:sean@nwh.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 14, 1997 2:00 PM
> To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	Re: Audi recalls 900,000 cars!! (airbags)
> 
> Ok, everyone, put on your thinking hats. Audi has announced an airbag
> recall.
> The back of my passenger visor recommends that my airbag be replaced
> in August
> of 2001  (10 years from the date of manufacture). I seem to recall
> that the
> reason for replacing the airbag after 10 years has to do with the
> breakdown of
> the airbag material. Does anyone know if this is true? I'd like to
> think that
> this airbag recall is going to buy me another 6 years of avoiding what
> I expect
> will be a very expensive airbag operation (dealerships say,
> "cha-ching!").
> 
> BTW, Jim, I love your idea of a steering wheel upgrade, let us know if
> you find
> out anything. In the meantime, I'll call around to the area Audi
> dealerships
> (Clair, Rietzl, Bernardi, etc) and see if they'll be flexible (have I
> lost my
> mind?) to that end... I wouldn't mind a thicker steering wheel rim.
> 
> Sean Ford
> sean@nwh.org                       '92 Audi 100CS 5spd 28K mi
> Newton-Wellesley Hospital      '89 Suzuki Katana 600 14K mi
> Newton, MA  02162 (USA)
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> 
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