Re: Bondage and Discipline

[harrison sapir <hsapir@earthlink.net>]

Audi started installing airbags in 89 only on select models. Actually, I
think that only the 200's got them. In 90 bags became standard on the
driver's side. At no time did Audi use the motorized belts. At least on US
bound cars. By the way, I like bags (duck).

harrison

Scott Fisher wrote:
All the cars I've ever owned either had factory seatbelts in them, or
I                    installed three-point harnesses shortly after I took
them home.  And the

> newest vehicle I've ever owned was built in 1986.  One result of this is
> that my family is really anal-retentive about seatbelt use; if I so much
> as turn the key in the ignition before everyone's strapped in, I get a
> chorus of "DA-aaaad!  We're not in our SEAT belts yet!" from the back
> seat.  (Which is the real reason for the subject line -- we're very
> disciplined about our bondage... I repeat, ahem.)
>
> This also, however, means I'm ignorant of the timeline for passive
> restraints in U.S.-market Audis (or any other car, for that matter).
> I'm sort of dimly aware of the following:
>
> 1 - Some time in the late Eighties or early Nineties, U.S. lawmakers
> required cars to be sold with passive restraint systems.
>
> 2 - Early passive restraint systems tended toward the "motorized mouse"
> variety of automatic seatbelt.
>
> 3 - Air bag technology eventually reached a point at which cars began
> adding air bags to front seat positions.
>
> But... I have no idea about the years in which this happened, or (in
> particular) about the years and models of Audi that may be affected by
> this legislation.  Since we're about to go shopping for a
> late-Eighties/early-Nineties Audi wagon... I now have reason to find
> out.
>
> And yes, I *know* I can simply look at the car we go test-drive, but I
> would like to have some idea in advance so that as I'm looking through
> the classified ads, I can sound knowledgeable by telling my wife in
> advance whether a particular car is likely to have belts or bags.
>
> (BTW: Whatever your opinion is on air bags -- you're absolutely right!
> You're 100% correct!  So you don't have to post anything to the list to
> contradict me and start a huge flame war on the subject, thereby ticking
> off hundreds if not thousands of Audi enthusiasts world-wide, because *I
> already agree with you*! :-)
>
> --Scott Fisher