Thread: Strong and safe or what

Originally Posted by adm333

Interesting question - who here has replaced their airbags after 10 years as recommended ??

Good question Dave. I'm sure Land Rover aren't selling the new/replacement SRS airbags at a discount either... and even if they did, how are you supposed to replace the airbags in the front seats without destroying the seats?

Oddly enough, my '99 Rangie is just on the 10 year mark (give or take a few months) and the good old "AIRBAG FAULT" message has started popping up the display intermittently in the past few days.

A sign perhaps, or just another Lucas/Sagem/Bosch gremlin?

Cheers, Paul.

Originally Posted by adm333

Interesting question - who here has replaced their airbags after 10 years as recommended ??

Don't know if this should be said out loud as the wrong people might be reading this.

It is a stated aim of the EU to remove all cars over 8 years old from the road. Seems that at this age some kind of witching hours occurs and cars become unsafe polluting monsters that must be destroyed for the good of the planet. Not that they are cynicaly looking after the car manufacturers who want to crank out lots of new cars and the people employed in the factories and all that tax which is paid on new cars that of course would be an accidental by product.

Now even the sages that make up the European government have not yet dared to directly implement this decision. That does not of course mean they are not dreaming up ways to make it more difficult to keep older cars on the road. Now if you think about it if you made it manditory to replace all the airbags in a modern car at 8 years of age the cost would exceed the value of the car. At least in europe where an 8 year old car is no longer fashionable and uncool to be seen in.

How long before the Australian government jumped on the band wagon and followed this one?