I'm sure I recall seeing an article recently saying that most manufacturer's had descoped this inspection / test.
The reason? When airbags were first fitted, nobody was really sure about the long-term reliability and 10 years was deemed a good enough "wet finger in the air" time to check.
Move on and as no test of old bag assemblies have thrown up a failing one, it's not being done any more. Hardly suprising really, the electronic trigger is self-checked (which is what the warning light on the dash indicates). The bag assembly is a bag(!) and a pyro pack. The only possible failure was degradation of the pyro pack over time, which has proven to be an unfounded concern.
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