16s26 Passenger Side Airbag Inflator

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These are mustangs, not a million dollar Ferrari. Expecting them to have any kind of "value" after we are done using them up is just silly. (not including the 65-70 GT350/500, GT500KR, or Boss mustangs :).. but none of those have airbags..)

I heard the same thing about moisture absorbtion being the issue. And I believe the geographical areas with high humidity do make the issue worse.
 

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I had a 2008 GT that had an airbag go off on me and there was no shrapnel. I was the only owner of that car and there was no recall work done it. I guess I got real lucky.
 

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I had a 2008 GT that had an airbag go off on me and there was no shrapnel. I was the only owner of that car and there was no recall work done it. I guess I got real lucky.

How long ago did it happen? Depending on how long ago, it might not have had enough time to collect enough moisture, or you may have been one of the ones not affected.

According to an automotive engineer that I was seated beside on a flight, 3% of the 3 year old samples from the state of Michigan were defective, and 9% of samples taken from 5 year old vehicles were defective . He said that the numbers leveled off around the 9% mark for older ones. The percentage of defective ones in warmer, more humid climates was "really high" he would not share that number with me.
 

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I had a 2008 GT that had an airbag go off on me and there was no shrapnel. I was the only owner of that car and there was no recall work done it. I guess I got real lucky.


Glad you did not get hurt. There are Millions of Air Bags in the recall. Somewhere along the line 1 caused a concern and a lawyer ran with it!
 

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How long ago did it happen? Depending on how long ago, it might not have had enough time to collect enough moisture, or you may have been one of the ones not affected.
This was early 2016, and the car had a late 2007 build date from what I remember. It had been a Georgia car all its life and I lived in south Georgia at the time. On a summer night my eyeglasses would fog up when getting out of the car after a drive. Plenty of moisture there.

It was a pretty hard impact but I walked away with just a bruised hand.
 
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