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Passenger-side airbag
- Thread starter ggerousis
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This will cost mk7 owners a hefty sum of money. I expected better engineering design from those VW German engineers.
Finglonga
Drag Racing Champion
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- Stafford, UK, Earth, Solar System.
Most cars are like that now, let the insurance worry about the cost, they get enough of us.
I agree with you. But they could have easily tucked away the airbag behind the plastic/aluminum trim strip right above the glove box. This way, the insurance will only have to pay for the new airbag with no additional cost pertaining to replacing expensive dashboard parts.
The Mk7 is generally costing less in insurance premiums (lower insurance groupings) because of all the new safety technology built into this model so i don't why you think it 'will cost mk7 owners a hefty sum of money'
The dash construction is also new to this model so I'm sure the design engineers would have reviewed the passenger air bag deployment as part of ongoing development anyway.
Golfing1
Passed Driver's Ed
- Location
- New Zealand
The seat stitching rips when the side airbags deploy too...most, if not all cars do this.