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10-02-2006, 09:04 AM | #26 |
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I've driven in some of the brisk TSD's that Ottawagon is talking about in my daily driver. The great thing about them is there are huge snow banks on either side of the road, so if you have an incident damage is relatively minor. Last year I had an encounter with a snow bank. The next car along pulled me out and I was able to continued the event. I had to replace my front bumper skin and one driving light (at my own expence). Luckily my airbag did not go off. If it had I would have been out of the event and I would have been calling the insurance company. And that would have been the end of rallying for me.
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10-02-2006, 09:12 AM | #27 |
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10-02-2006, 10:06 AM | #28 | ||
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That is what I want to avoid! I suspect the wrx deployment system is relatively advanced so as not to deploy when not absolutely needed, but who knows... sometimes if it hits in just the right way, it might set it off. |
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10-02-2006, 10:32 AM | #29 | |
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10-02-2006, 11:19 AM | #30 |
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Yes - Definitely a valid and important point!
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10-02-2006, 11:46 AM | #31 | |
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I am inclined to reccomend leaving the airbags active ... as I do in my daily drover for brisk tsds and course car duties ... if for no other reason that the car is designed to give you the best possible protection it can. There are a number of factors that can change the equation, as an example helmets and airbags are a bad combination. I would think that a 4/5/6 point harness that stops you from moving forward to meet the airbags would likely increase the injury a bag would infilict on you. (The bag face will have reached a higher spped before contact) Ultimately, I guess I am saying that if you are running the stock 3pt belt and stock seats, you're likely better off leaving the airbags operational. Once we get into adding 4pt harnesses we open up the next can of worms (harneses without a cage) adn really change the dynamics of the accident inside the car. |
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10-02-2006, 12:27 PM | #32 | |
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10-02-2006, 04:24 PM | #33 |
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hey Ottawagon,
Our pro rally co-driver Marc asked the same questions about a year or so ago: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...hlight=airbags These events that Ottawagon is talking about are pretty competitive.... and we normally get top Pro Rally teams entering in street vehicles.... |
10-02-2006, 04:52 PM | #34 |
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OMG!!! Marc Goldfarb is going to die!!! I can't believe he'd advocate something so irresponsible!!! We're all going to die!!! Won't anyone think of the children???
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10-02-2006, 05:09 PM | #35 |
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10-02-2006, 06:19 PM | #36 | |
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I think Robin still gets to say "our" since he crews for Marc and ACP. And yeah, last year ACP came out to one of our gravel events, as well as one of the winter events. John Buffum co-drove for Paul at that winter one also. This year Matt Iorio is coming to one of the two gravel events this month. It is pretty awesome for us regular dudes to have guys like that show up! |
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10-02-2006, 07:12 PM | #37 |
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I believe you mean, "Poseur."
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10-02-2006, 11:18 PM | #38 | |
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Ya.... been doing this rally thing (crew) for a few times.... right bjorn240? Xgames drive was a fun one...... but glad I had a flight back! |
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10-22-2014, 08:34 PM | #39 | |
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With the current recall ongoing, I want to disable my airbags. Is it truly as simple as pulling the airbag fuse? Rather disable them than wait for GM (Saab 92x in my case) to get their **** together.
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02-22-2018, 04:51 PM | #40 |
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My wife hit a cow doing 55 and no airbags. i guess it depends on what you hit.
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