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I'm expecting that section 5.4 (supplimentary restraint system) will get some modification if too many cars start to fail under it, there are currently NO exemptions listed - it says "This inspection applies to airbags, seat belt pretensioners and seat belt load limiters fitted as original equipment." so that doesn't even leave room for disabled hand controls, let alone race/rally cars. This sort of thing does happen, and is one of the reasons that until april it is only an advisory item.
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murran
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tbh these new failure items are without substance. vosa has always focused on mechanical and active safety features. active safety meaning features that can prevent an accident happening (abs, esp) vosa entering a world of passive safety (airbags) has opened up a whole new ball game for them that don't think they wanted to enter as an orgnisation. the eu via the government forced vosa into these new things, vosa has implemented them as best they can without upsetting the statusquo. the sooner were out of the eu the sooner we can start being britain again. sign it.... i have. epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/356 |
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Isn't a seatbelt a passive safety item? There is a whole chunk of manual dedicated to making sure they are safe to use....The big difference for me is that seatbelts are mandatory and airbags (so far) are not.
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murran
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yeah seat belts are passive safety items. but theyve been law for so long now.
pretensioners missing or obviously deployed are now in the manual too. so if a car has pretensioners from new but youve fitted 4 point harnesses insted..... does that now fail too?
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Airbag removalBenzBoy
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Jan 13, 2012 22:37:15 GMT
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Just caught up with this thread... seems we'll just have to wait and see. The disabled car thing is an interesting point.
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(Usually) 2.2 ohm resistor across the contacts will make the SRS system "think" that the airbag is still there. Lamp will cycle as normal, pre-tensioners will work as normal.
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