Today i totaled my car. Flipped it ass over end about 5-6 times and ended up on its side. During the whole thing, the air bags for the passenger/driver never deployed or the side air bags. I had no airbag fault light on my car and everything was hooked up. Is this normal? I didn't have a recall listed but i noticed there was an issue with earlier models. I'm lucky to be walking away alive, let alone with just a 3 stitches needed for the gash on my head. This was at 50mph on pilot knob. Someone moved over in my lane and too avoid hitting them i moved over and hit black ice.
Damn sorry to hear that!!! not sure about the deploy of air bags for a roll over but maybe your Subaru saved your life. Glad you O.K. good luck with everything to follow.
Daaaaaamn dude! The airbags probably should have deployed from the looks of that... The insurance company will probably give you more money than you paid for it though. You got it for like $6k down south right? Glad you are all right, hope you don't have whiplash or something that surfaces later. Sometimes it takes a few days or weeks for you to feel all of the damage.
Motor was still running if anyone needs a good donor car. I also think I paid 7k for it and had about 3k+ in maintenance. Finally had the car running perfect with no maintenance required. It had limited interior.
Wow.... Looks like the trunk nigh be the only part that wasn't completely destroyed.. Glad to hear you are alright! Some of the airbags didn't go off in my Mazda when I rolled it.. Kind of a minor detail in retrospect..
Ouch! Glad you are ok! I don't think the airbags are supposed to go off in a rollover. I think you have to hit the sensors pretty square on. I hit black ice on 94 in an 09 Prius in wi one time. Took the front bumper off under the drivers headlight. Airbags never went.
You should see how much the insurance company wants for the car. Buy it back and take the engine and tranny and leather interior out. I bet you could make some money.
With school I don't have time to part out a car or space. I'll post up the yard it will sit at once I get personal items out.
Don't forget the accessport, and you should try and take that exhaust, I'm interested in that.. What was it etc..?
Sorry to hear about the accident, glad to hear you are ok! Based on the condition of the doors and b pillar, those airbags probably wouldn't go off as they are not supposed to trigger unless there is a significant side impact.
I think two things saved me from a world of pain. Number 1 - Seat belts save lives. Always wear them, if i didn't have mine own my face wouldn't have just one cut above the eyebrow that required only 3 stitches. Number 2 - I'm 6'2", that makes me have my seat back all the way and leaned down a lot.
Damn, very sorry to see that. Getting in accidents is no fun...especially when your car was running in great shape! They don't seem to get totaled when they are having issues. As far as the airbags - was your car a limited and did it always have the limited interior? Or did you or someone swap in the limited interior...namely the seats? Edit: judging by the sunroof, it must have always been a limited...but just want to double check.
I bought my totaled saabaru back and sold it to a junk yard for more than my buy-back price. Granted, mine still drove so it was a little bit easier to get it around. Volatle - if you had the time and space, there would definitely money to be made by parting it out. I had the same issues as you though when my car was totaled...no time or space for a part out.
Damn! Glad you, and others, walked away. For the air bag thing. How I understand them is its like pendulum activated switch. (Bob starts on one end force pushes it to the other side). Force has to close the switches circuit. So in a roll over, energy wasn't pushed from the front to the back, unless im ready the pictures wrong. I believe the sensors are on the cooling support and it doesnt look like your front end was pushed around enough to deploy the bags I bought my car, which was a roll over. The bags were intact, curtain bags and all. Correct me if i am wrong.
That sound plausible but I have no idea. I would have thought side curtain airbags would have been tied to a sensor on the side.
I believe most side airbags are connected to all sensors these days. I just recently bought a 2013 outback with only front end damage, nothing past the struts towers, and the drivers bag and curtain air bags deployed. Side sensors still could only deploy curtain and seat bags. It is to prevent a occupants from hitting their head on the window and to keep glass and other depree from coming in.
