You can feel safe in a 5 series
02-26-2008 | 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by tiberivs' post='536397' date='Feb 26 2008, 01:37 PM
Yes these are some very safe cars. i had a bad expirience with my first e60. i was driving down a main road here in florida at about 45 mph and a tree fell as i was driving on my car. luckily i walked out without a scratch.
02-26-2008 | 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by advancedlogic' post='536075' date='Feb 25 2008, 11:38 PM
Thank goodness she was OK. Wow. I do have one concern however - what the heck happened to the steering wheel airbag? Did it deploy?
02-26-2008 | 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by baadaaboo' post='536088' date='Feb 26 2008, 12:14 AM
how could it happen? I feel bad for the house owner and our insurance rate is going higher and higher because of these drivers.
02-27-2008 | 02:02 AM
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the airbags are likely connected to an intelligent controller that decides the angle of impact etc and fires the airbags it expects to be needed. A previous car i had was listed in documentation as not firing airbags if the frontal impact angle was greater than 45 deg.
Perhaps it sensed a glancing, not a full frontal impact, and decided the wheel airbag wasnt required.
Would be a lot easier to fire everything, but perhaps these things are computer controlled to save on replacing 8 or so airbags in one go!
Perhaps it sensed a glancing, not a full frontal impact, and decided the wheel airbag wasnt required.
Would be a lot easier to fire everything, but perhaps these things are computer controlled to save on replacing 8 or so airbags in one go!
02-27-2008 | 10:36 AM
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02-27-2008 | 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by advancedlogic' post='536075' date='Feb 26 2008, 12:38 AM
Thank goodness she was OK. Wow. I do have one concern however - what the heck happened to the steering wheel airbag? Did it deploy?
