Indeed there are, but there is only one surface covering that cant be repaired.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Beauty over practicality.
But then again, I never did like the cassette type of airbag. They looked ugly.
The cost of repairs would be a pain for an older car and yes, probably does lead to write offs, but better the car than the person!
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Its comes into play on most cars these days. A two or three year old car could well be written off by airbag deployment. At 1500+ quid to replace a set of bags, a dash, some seats the headlining, it does not take much other mechanical damage to tip it over the edge
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Any impact hard enough to depoly the airbags will often, but not always, be enough to write the car off on it's own. If you trawl through salvage websites there are lots of written off vehicles there that *haven't* had the bags deploy.
I always take the view that if I'm going to crash that badly I want to see more "bangs for my buck" so the more airbags the better :-)
Blue
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