Airbags in new 70 series

[Tonka]

Gday everyone

Ive just read that from July 2010 Toyota Australia will be selling the 70 series with a new dashboard and with airbags.
I would like to pose some questions to anyone that knows.

1. Have the big mining companies stopped buying vehicles without airbags?

2. do you think this had an affect on 70 series sales?

3. how do you retrofit a roo/bull bar to the front of an airbagged car? in regards to the airbag sensors.

4. what happens to the airbag in the event of hitting a cow/emu/dropbear/roo/bushturkey/bundybear?

5. has anyone driven an airbagged car underground in the manner you might drive a 40tonne dumptuck underground?(ie touchy/feely/where is the sidewall?)?

just to remind you of the clearances of a 40tonner ug...

....note the touchy feely pads on the front.

 

[Clint79]

Toyota LC70: Images
the new dash has been out for a bit
you can tell which cruiser utes and troopys have them cos they also got a new outside v8 turbo cab sticker

dashs look a bit like landrover ones with the air vent but after seeing them at toyota they dont loon to bad

 

[ForealBoreal]

what happens to the airbag in the event of hitting a cow/emu/dropbear/roo/bushturkey/bundybear?

what i am wondering is what the hell is a dropbear, bushturkey and bundy bear?

airbags wont go off unless its a hard enough hit.

 

[roscoFJ73]

Gday everyone

Ive just read that from July 2010 Toyota Australia will be selling the 70 series with a new dashboard and with airbags.
I would like to pose some questions to anyone that knows.

1. Have the big mining companies stopped buying vehicles without airbags?

no,there is nothing else and OHS require it,just like seat belts etc

do you think this had an affect on 70 series sales?

No ,its probably swayed a few away from other brands.Some aussies reckoned the 78/79 series was outdated .

how do you retrofit a roo/bull bar to the front of an airbagged car? in regards to the airbag sensors.

ARB and others have been doing it for years with the 100 series ,range rovers etc. They use some sort of crumple zone in the brackets,I think it has diagram on the ARB site

what happens to the airbag in the event of hitting a cow/emu/dropbear/roo/bushturkey/bundybear?

You cook the said species in the airbag,like an oven bag

anyone driven an airbagged car underground in the manner you might drive a 40tonne dumptuck underground?(ie touchy/feely/where is the sidewall?)?

just to remind you of the clearances of a 40tonner ug...

....note the touchy feely pads on the front.

Cant answer that one ,except that aussie airbags do not open as violently as the airbags in north america.
They lowered the air pressure in the belief that aussies are more likely to be wearing a seatbelt and thus,the air bag is secondary protection .

 

[Clint79]

hahah cook drop bears in the air bag

The bundy bear is a huge white bear that sucks on bundy cans all day and pull heaps of girls

Dont forget about the tighness of the room when the bogger bucket is up againts the backs dumping loads in the top of the truck

 

[Clint79]

While on the topic of underground

 

[Gun Runner 5]

Its somewhat refreshing to know there is a Land Cruiser somewhere in the world that goes fast enough to warrant an airbag. My HJ45 is more likely to get hit from the rear than the front due to the angry driver who is stuck behind me.
...............1978HJ45

 

[Hulsty]

Have you been under a rock or something? Toyota has been selling airbag model for months now with the airbag dash. My dad has had is since late last year now, fitted up with ARB bullbar, winch etc.

 

[Gun Runner 5]

Not under a rock.....simply an effort to inject some humor. I am in the U.S.A. and if I am not mistaken we invented the darn airbag. Take care.......1978HJ45

 

[Hulsty]

was talking to Tonka mate

 

[Notmyrealname]

what i am wondering is what the **** is a dropbear, bushturkey and bundy bear?

Hahahaha my thoughts exactly.

Drop Bear - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

 

[Tonka]

Have you been under a rock or something? Toyota has been selling airbag model for months now with the airbag dash. My dad has had is since late last year now, fitted up with ARB bullbar, winch etc.

haha for the last 3 years Ive mainly been under rocks in the northern hemisphere so dont know what the ozzie market is like at the moment

The article i gleamed the info about the airbags was a bit cra00y and most likely had an automatic date keeper thingo that made me read that its this july.

 

[Tonka]

You cook the said species in the airbag,like an oven bag


.

I hear theres good eatting in the bush turkey.

heres a story i heard outa Meekathara...

Been a protected species someone found a freshly road killed one at the side of the road. Been a good lad, he lifted it, took it home, and he phoned the nature department to report what he had found. As he looked at it he thought "i cant let it rot i may as well cook the thing". Later a government man turned up looking for the corpse only to find plucked feathers and a carcass. Old matey got done for killing the thing.

 

[roscoFJ73]

I hear theres good eatting in the bush turkey.

heres a story i heard outa Meekathara...

Been a protected species someone found a freshly road killed one at the side of the road. Been a good lad, he lifted it, took it home, and he phoned the nature department to report what he had found. As he looked at it he thought "i cant let it rot i may as well cook the thing". Later a government man turned up looking for the corpse only to find plucked feathers and a carcass. Old matey got done for killing the thing.

Thats the law.Same thing happened to the guys that went and cut the teeth out of a dead whale washed up on the beach.
You have to leave them alone,dead or alive.

My guess is they dont want people killing wildlife for food/money and then argueing it was a natural death.

 

[Tonka]

too true.

 

[ForealBoreal]

I hear theres good eatting in the bush turkey.

heres a story i heard outa Meekathara...

Been a protected species someone found a freshly road killed one at the side of the road. Been a good lad, he lifted it, took it home, and he phoned the nature department to report what he had found. As he looked at it he thought "i cant let it rot i may as well cook the thing". Later a government man turned up looking for the corpse only to find plucked feathers and a carcass. Old matey got done for killing the thing.

Bald eagles get cooked sometimes on the powerlines here.
People take them or find dead ones and call the Conservation officers and ask if its ok to take. The C O says yeah sure and gets your address.
He comes by the next day and picks it up from you and says its not ok and you get s***.
I have heard of stuff like that happening.