Armor FR bumpers & active airbags (srs) - who had gambled & lost / Blown the bags?

[turbocat]

For what it is worth....
Even in a very simple system one of the major factors in determining airbag deployment is the inertia/G sensor. I was able to see this first hand while doing security vehicle training a few years ago. One of the exercises involves ramming a vehicle with an evading vehicle. The biggest eye opening lesson was that if you were accelerating when ramming the other vehicle you would not trip the air bags. We performed the exercise real time at least 10 times. Not once was there any airbag deployment. In older vehicles the inertia/g sensor(1990's) is only looking for a rapid deceleration combined with a high G impact. This usually means applying brakes and decelerating from 35 mph or more along with an abrupt impact.

 

[chtucker]

10 years of plowing 200-300 inches of snow a year with air bag equiped trucks and I have never even heard of anyone setting off an airbag. I have hit rocks, curbs, walls, posts, manhole covers, bushes, trees and cars..


If indeed they did go off, I probably would be thankful. I have gotten in and out of the truck shoveling and not put my seatbelt back on; I sure have regretted it when I hit my head on the dash after whacking a manhole cover at 15mph.

It's all to cover their legal rear end. I am sure it does affect it, but no one here or at ARB knows for sure how it will react in every situation.

Btw that is a 4x4 gmc 5500 top kick with a 35" tall v plow pushing over 40" of snow in my avatar