Are my airbags actually installed?

Grog6 said:
1600 is 32 to 212 degrees
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Expansion is very minimal between 32 and 212 degrees; it has only risen 180 BTU. You need to add an additional 970 BTU / lb. to convert water st 212 degrees F to steam ( latent heat of vaporisation ) The expansion is 1731 times to be exact.
 
How many btus does ammonium nitrate give off as it burns? way more than that. We don't use ammonium nitrate in solid fuel rocket engines due to gyroscopic tendencies, and unpredictable behavior. Aluminum powder mixed with ammonium nitrate explodes instead of burning. Adding water makes them blow up harder.
 
I gave my old '94 Coug to my mom in 2014 after I picked up my 96 Mark. After a few months she plowed into someone who was stopped in traffic at a red light (she was not paying attention...) hard enough to blow the air bags and totaled the car. The force of the cover over the bag in the wheel opening up fractured her forearm but she was otherwise OK with no head injuries or the like.

She has a bad habit of never wearing a seat belt. Were it not for the air bags, I'm not sure she would have walked away from that one.
 
I blew the bags on the tbird; you don't see them open, just deflating.
If you hit something in front, do not stomp your left foot, lol.
 
theterminator93 said:
I gave my old '94 Coug to my mom in 2014 after I picked up my 96 Mark. After a few months she plowed into someone who was stopped in traffic at a red light (she was not paying attention...) hard enough to blow the air bags and totaled the car. The force of the cover over the bag in the wheel opening up fractured her forearm but she was otherwise OK with no head injuries or the like.

She has a bad habit of never wearing a seat belt. Were it not for the air bags, I'm not sure she would have walked away from that one.
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That is actually exactly what front airbags are for. People think they airbags make the car safer, but they are actually there just for people who don’t wear a seatbelt. If you wear your seatbelt, front airbags will never do anything for you. Side airbags are a different story, those are very effective since there isn’t any crumple zone to absorb a side impact and the standard 3-point belt doesn’t really restrain you side to side very well. But since I religiously wear seat belts, and since all my vehicles are old enough to not have side airbags, I disable the airbags in every vehicle I own.

Brandon, as for your mom, show her this. This is only a 25mph impact with and without seat belts.
 
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