air bags

Well, they crash the car. If the bags go off, then you had working air bags
and you pass the inspection!

 

in california, they dont physically check for the bags. dunno if having
an SRS light lit up would cause it to not pass the biennual emissions
test. id think not, but hey- ya never know.

a guy i know had an accident bad enough to set off the bags. he put a
friggin LCD screen in the steering wheel in place of the bag.

bling, bling, y'all!

 

Wonder what his next accident will look like, what with that screen and
all...

 

<< Well, they crash the car. If the bags go off, then you had working air
bags
and you pass the inspection! >>

Shitttt....... LMAO!

 

Seemed so to me.

And thank God for that, too!

Do you think it's much of a cost issue?

 

That sounds fiendishly expensive - they'd either have to be done at
final assembly (or whenever the VIN is determined) or the air bags
allocated at manufacture to a specific VIN except, of course, those
intended for aftermarket sale.

 

<snort>

Let's just say I'm skeptical (not a flame, BTW).

 

That would certainly make it really easy to ID any car whose air bags
had been stolen. Besides, who's to say everyone who smells like skunk
has stolen air bags?

 

Not that expensive. Cheap laser-etching marker machines are commonly
available for this purpose, both for batch-numbering and serial numbering.

They're used to mark items where the usual inkjet marking would wear off,
and they're cheaper to run than inkjets, because of the costs of
consumables.

 

I am sure it would not be more than the amount I am paying to replace
the two stolen air bags. Would u believe $1400, just for the parts, all
out of pocket? I am sure that insurance companies would also be in favor
of VIN etching into the air bags.