This video is most likely of a counterfeit airbag inflator, not an exemplar of the Takata airbag issue. OEM’s or Government agencies don’t hang inflators from cables with duct tape when testing. Not even a reputable Forensic Engineering firm would engage in something so poorly set up.

You’re wrong. The inflator module utilizes a small detonator and a calculated amount of solid fuel, that must be ignited to create Nitrogen gas. All gases are vented to the airbag to inflate it, there are no other “vents”. It’s supposed to be a controlled explosion by design. Unfortunately, it’s the over…

Did you not read my post? Let me repeat it for you, “...no danger unless you throw them into a fire”. I read your link. It was a truck full of airbag detonators, not airbags assemblies. The truck carrying the detonators caught on fire. What do think would happen next? 

No danger unless you apply current to an inflator, or throw them into fire.

Not necessarily true. Depends on the location of the inflator and where the “burst panel” opens.

The detonator is not the issue with the Takata airbags, it’s the dry chemical fuel, which grows incrementally over time, when exposed to excessive ambient moisture. That’s why vehicles located in Florida and other southern states received early preference when replacement parts became available.

Let’s face the real fact of failure, no one south of the 48th parallel could pronounce the word Saskatchewan, let alone spell it. That’s when everyone balked and walked away from the experiment.

If his football career goes south this season, there are openings still to be filled in the Trump administration I hear.

Branded titles are branded for a reason. No OEM want’s the headache of honoring the remainder of the factory warranty on write off that’s been brought back to life. I work for an OEM and I can’t tell you the number of law suits I’ve seen regarding recall issues being blamed for a crash after a branded vehicle has…

I guess you’re too young (or not even born) to remember the“bustle-back” tail ends of the Cadillac Seville and Chrysler Imperial back in the early 80's.

I’ve seen worse, involving a Chevy Cobalt. Instead of hitting a sign while in mid-flight, his motion was arrested by a tree. DRT! (dead right there). Major Darwin award winner, posthumously of course.

So far, the biggest d-bag of 2017, even though there’s about four months to go.

No, dumber!

“Quackenbush”?

They used one of these till it ran out of nitro...

The Bugatti’s speedo needle has to go around twice to hit 400 km/H.

Come on Hostess! Time to step in and give this team sponsorship. Then I’ll be sure to head over to Wal Mart and get a bag of donettes, while giving the finger to every paedo loving Subway I pass on the way.

I once had a pair Fiona Apple concert tickets that I left in the cupholder of my car. Someone broke into it while it was parked and left me a second pair.

I’m thinking it would be a lot like this:

Find me a Labrador, and I’ll retrieve her.