sister in law bumped into a pole in a parking lot. she says the air bag went off in the steerting wheel and broke the windshield. first, is she shit out of luck trying to pay out of pocket for this??? she wants me to find a air bag and get the windshield replaced. is there any laws about changing a airbag without reporting it or anything. I swear I remember something about this. second, where the hell can I find a airbag??? at a good price?? I check ebay and they have none. any ideas or thoughts?
How bad is the damage to the front end from hitting the pole? And look up the laws online for Airbag replacement. Finding an air bag for a G6 should be getting easy now that they have been out for a few years.
I was starting to find the answer, but it’s 5pm and I’m going home. Looks like NY was in the middle of regulating the hell out of it. I’m if you use the info in this quote you can find the answer pretty quick.
In 1996, a New York vehicle law was passed as part of the Airbag Safety and Anti-theft Act, requiring that recycled airbags be certified before installation (New York Consolidated Laws, Chapter 71, Section 415-c). The law allows a shop — at the consumer’s request — to replace a deployed airbag with a salvaged one, but only if “…such salvaged inflatable restraint system shall be certified according to standards established by a nationally recognized testing, engineering and research body approved by the commissioner in consultation with the superintendent of insurance.”
However, since no entity exists that conducts such a certification program, the Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) of New York, along with A&P Auto Parts Inc.; John Cahill, dba Cahill’s Garage; and Don’s Automotive Mall Inc, filed a lawsuit in December 1999 against the State of New York and Richard E. Jackson Jr., commissioner of Motor Vehicles of the State of New York, claiming that prohibiting the recycling and selling of salvaged airbags may damage their businesses.
On May 2, 2000, the New York Supreme Court for Albany County granted a preliminary injunction in the suit, ruling that since there was no existing way to certify recycled airbags, it was impossible to abide by the law. On June 13, 2001, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi ruled in favor of the ARA et al. — a ruling that was subsequently appealed by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, which is now reviewing Airbag Testing Technology’s recycled airbag certification procedures to determine whether their testing procedures address the concerns of the court.
The outcome of this case may well render unnecessary a bill (#A6994), introduced on March 6, 2001 by Assemblyman Naomi C. Matusow, requiring that only an airbag designed for a specific make and model vehicle be installed in vehicles. Violation of this section of law would be a class A misdemeanor. Mike Ridley, from Matusow’s office, tells Marketplace “whatever comes from the court case will determine where we go with the legislation. If the existing law is found to be legal, this bill may not be needed. But the problem we have is that there is no such thing as a nationally accredited testing facility — it was an oversight when the law was drafted — so that part of the legislation may have to be removed.”
He adds “the bill we have deals with re-manufactured and reclaimed airbags that you find in cars in the junkyard. The problem is that airbags become incredibly volatile when they become wet. ATT has come up with a process that will determine whether the airbag is exposed to water. Once we get all the information we need, we are probably going to change the bill. We’re not going to loosen the restrictions, we’re probably going to make them more stringent, especially considering [the Demers case]. We are going to do everything we can to make sure that never happens here.”
Specifically on the topic of rebuilt airbags, another bill, #A1176, introduced by Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz on January 10, 2001, prohibits the knowing installation, reinstallation, distribution, or sale of a previously deployed airbag, with violation also to represent a class A misdemeanor. The bill requires notice to be given when an airbag is missing in a repair or transfer transaction, prohibits overriding an airbag readiness indicator light, and requires motor vehicle dealers to notify purchasers of passenger motor vehicles of the absence of an airbag. On January 9, 2002, the bill was referred to the codes committee.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/cars/rebuilt_airbags/laws.html
The bill requires notice to be given when an airbag is missing in a repair or transfer transaction, prohibits overriding an airbag readiness indicator light, and requires motor vehicle dealers to notify purchasers of passenger motor vehicles of the absence of an airbag. nm, we are just going to take it to a collision shop
if theres no visible damage go to the dealership and say wtf this thing blew up in my face. its a coomen problem on tiburons i heard