Technical Fitting 500 seats, must move the airbags over

[svennelainen]

I am picking up a pair of 500 seats tomorrow.

Up here the seats from salvaged cars are never sold with the airbags with the argument that they're not allowed back in traffic once the car is in the salvage yard. So I need to refit the airbags from the OEM Panda sponge benches to the new seats. I have a small hunch the OEM bags are smaller than the bags in these seats, and there should be enough room.

What do you think?

 

[koalar]

Not something I'd even consider

There fairly different

And there no way of knowing if it's safe

 

[svennelainen]

And there no way of knowing if it's safe

What is not safe?

 

[koalar]

What is not safe?

In a cavity that normally has

You want to fit one of these

I can't see anyone ever recommending fitting mismatch airbag components to any seat

Aside from the legal and insurance problems

They are designed to inflate in a carful choreographed sequence all within approximately 30 milliseconds, pretention, front, curtain, seat

The worst two scenarios I can think of is it inflates before the seatbelt pretention has pull you back into the seat or it goes behind the seat foam and it fires you forward

Of course You don't need an airbag on a car

That is until you really need it.

But It's up to you what you do to your car

 

[svennelainen]

Then let's agree to disagree. I am moving over the airbag that is tailored for the controller in the car. The seat rips up in exactly the same way and in the same direction. Besides that, airbags blow when the fuse is lit and it doesn't matter what airbag is connected. It will blow and they do in an instant.
Transferring airbags isn't a new thing. Maybe in the UK but certainly not here.

BUT, your images verified what I needed to know and the seats are already opened up for the swap and it will be quite easy to fit the bags.

 

[svennelainen]

Even better, my Panda seats have absolutely zero airbags...

 

[koalar]

Option extra and very rare, at least here in the UK

 

[svennelainen]

Anyway, they're in. Had to steal the rear outside bracket from the OEM seats. Filled up the airbag voids with spray foam to prevent the side cushion to collapse.