Is it safe to drive a car with ancient granades installed?

Question

What I am referring to are the airbags. New cars now days have at least 8 airbags now. Even the cheap models. What happens once these cars get 60 years old? How about a 2008 car in 2108. Would you be afraid to step inside knowing that the ancient air bags could deploy at any given moment much like old war bombs that haven't been dismantled?

Answer 1

I think as today's cars get older, and become collectors items, that this will be addressed. As 'backyard mechanics' work on their own vehicles there will be more problems. Show cars and the like will have some provision for dismantling the air bags.

I also believe (hope) that something better comes along very soon. I recently saw one car bump into another in a parking lot, and one car's air bags went off. It filled the car with smoke, messed up the interior of the car substantially, shocked the he77 out of the driver. It probably cost 20 times more to fix the interior than to fix the little dent he got.

Also, many new cars use air bags that deploy a bit slower now. The charge air bags use is minuscule compared to a grenade.

Answer 2

NO, it would not be safe and it is going to become a bigger problem as time goes on.

Someone will be driving along, get hit by another car........and BOOM.....all the people in the old car get killed.

Answer 3

>>  2008 car in 2108.

That would worth a lot as antique.

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Bombs and grenades are dangerous because of shrapnel - not just because of the explosive.

Good Luck...

Answer 4

Well Why is it that most cars with airbags, dont deploy?  so whats the difference between an older car without airbags, and a new car with airbags? not a d**n thing, but nowadays, you have a 50-50 (not actual statistic) chance of surviving do to airbags.

Answer 5

The manufacturer recommends to have them inspected at the dealership every ten years.

Remember that they have a preservative powder coating to keep them from getting wet or rotting.

This is supposed to last 25 years to 30 years...

Answer 6

I would probably consider having them removed if I had a car that old.  I would not want to drive any 100-year-old car in traffic anyway.