http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=291529 Seriously, how much would that suck?! The really cold days are coming up so for those of you using propane/kerosene/natty gas/etc... please be careful and don't forget to keep things well ventilated please! Speaking of which, first thing I'm doing when I get home is rearranging the garage lol:
My only question is, why did the airbags go off? I thought they only went off at speed (30+ mph?). That had to be loud though. Russ
That's why you're supposed to put valve covers on high pressure gas bottles. If it gets hit hard enough to sheer off, it becomes a missile. And never run electrical things if you smell gas, that includes turning on (or off even) a light switch.
Air bags... Maybe the blast had =or> the amount of force that a 30+ MPH crash would have. Only thing I can think of.
Wow. My question is why would you keep an acetylene (or any other combustible gas) bottle in a closed vehicle overnight? Scares me to even transport those things in a closed vehicle (I take great care to be safe when I do transport them).
meh.. I have argon, 90/10 and an acetylene setup all in my shop.... if it goes boom it goes boom... hasnt so far in 7+yrs of having them
I read that guys article - maybe I missed it but is he saying he was inside the vehicle when it went off, or that he drove the car out and had the door open when he hit the power windows? What amazes me is he only lost hearing in one year considering the kind of overpressure and the multiple concussions that had to have occured.
Actually, the airbags only go off if the sensor is activated in the bumper/doors... where ever they are located. Unless there was enough shock to the ecu that it just set them all off. Notice the curtain airbag went off as well. That had to be some force to shred the vehicle like that. Only seen that much carnage done to a vehicle in a accidents involving semi's.
See, I was under the impression that the ecu needed to see the vehicle speed sensors say it was moving over 30-40 mph before it activated the airbags. Otherwise you just need to energize the system and crush the sensor with a baseball bat and they would go off. They don't, I have tried. I will look in my owners manual later, to see if it says anything in there. Russ
I have a feeling that this particular situation was one of those that can't really be planned for by the airbag engineers. I'm betting that the overpressure was enough to disrupt the system to the point where the bags got set off. The bags will go off if you're parked and you get hit hard enough. The airbag ECU has several different parameters that have to be met (speed, impact force, angle of impact, deceleration G, etc.) and those parameters vary depending on each other. Medic, do you work for one of the local ambulance services or was that while you were in the military?
Military- 0311, 8152, 8154.. more of the opposite of what I do now. I am a Paramedic. I work for North Memorial and also Northfield (south of lakeville, north of faribault). Probably Gold Cross as well, interview next month. Sorry for the slight thread jack....
I have always been curious about this, when my bugeye got rear ended I was at a dead stop and standing on the brake pedal, the other car was going around 35-40 I would guess (he was at 55 and hit the brake at the last instant). The air bags did not deploy in that situation. Here is a pic (it has been posted before) bigger pic Other Car: bigger
