97 disco airbag

[Snatch98lse]

so family was finishing moving to Idaho last night when my mom rolled her 97 disco. from what i can put together she tipped it onto the passenger side and slip until hitting a treestump sending it into a forward flip and landing back on the tires. ended up with 75% pass side damaged, 75% glass loss, 80% front end damage. she was wearing her seatbelt and worse injury is a dislocated elbow. even the cat and dog in the truck survived. brother reported rover started and drove out of embankment to the tow truck. wow

1. gotta hand it to rovers for bein built well, any other vehicle would have been smashed.

2. the airbags did not go off? why not? anyone have any info on this?

will post a pic once i get some.

thinkin of choppin it

 

[BaldEagle]

i heard rovers have a higher g force rating required to set them off i.e so it doesnt go off if you hit a tree on a trail. maybe it malfuntioned...sounds like that should of set it off though. i creamed a camry one time and nothing happened i just attributed it to the arb bumper though. glad everyone is ok

 

[NHESS81]

air bags are odd...sometimes they go or dont go off for whatever reason. hence, why there are always warnings on cars to still wear a seat belt--the air bag is NOT going to go off on EVERY impact, it is a supplemental system, and if it works then good, if not, then you better have you belt on too. Also, I am thinking that once you get into a 'rollover' state, the computer has to understand its not upright anymore, and perhaps in fear of adding more injury to the occupants (they might be at odd angles or distances while tumbling) the computer may decide to NOT deploy the air bags. I dont know how sophisticated the systems are, but it might be that smart, and to me that seems like a logical reason. My sister rolled her Taurus on the freeway, into the side of a hill with some forward impact, no airbags...take it for what its worth....

 

[marc olivares]

rollovers typically dont trigger inertia switches, very common.


nick, tell me how a computer decides not to trigger an airbag...
does it use deductive or inductive reasoning for this?

 

[NHESS81]

LOL...naturally, dont you know computers are not electronic things that only know on or off? I thought you heard of the new 1/2 added to the binary and basic set of computer and electronic talk of on or off...lol...ok what I am FIGURING is that if they can install an inertia swtich for forward/backward motion detection, what stops them from throwing one in that does up or down motion as would be experienced in a roll over? I am just guessing, I have no idea.

 

[marc olivares]

well hell, you almost had me convinced, dont stop now

 

[justinhaaga]

010001 triggers the bag where as 001001 does not, clearly this was a 001001 incident which based on 352 * 521 minus the force of the roll and the impact of the stump of a 2negative degree the calculation resulted in a postive vectra 2.0.

On a more serious note, gald she's ok!!

 

[netjaws]

Wait, burning question-

has anyone ever seen a Disco's bags deploy?

 

[SteveA]

The bags in my 2000 deployed. I can't say that I actually saw it though. All I can remember is that it was really loud. Of course, this was a very strong impact prior to the vehicle rolling.

Stephen

 

[netjaws]

Alright, I was just making sure the SRS wasn't a myth like some other.. things