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@VA_White
Nevermind the fact that it's DaimlerChrysler with headquarters in Germany, run by Germans, using German engineered parts (maybe not for the mini-van, but for their cars and SUVs). But what the hell, it's an American car.
@VA_White
Nevermind the fact that it's DaimlerChrysler with headquarters in Germany, run by Germans, using German engineered parts (maybe not for the mini-van, but for their cars and SUVs). But what the hell, it's an American car.
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Guess what??? Give up??? Almost all the air bag inflators in \"crappy American cars\" are the same as the ones in the Toyota, Honda, Nissan, all the offshoots from those makers and most European models. Two major suppliers produce 90% of the worlds inflators and the number two supplier buys 500,000 units a year from the number one. And, they are brushings, they also double as shorting clips when the inflator is in transport or simply disconnected from the firing circuit preventing an unwanted discharge.
Plus; if drivers in general knew exactly what happens during air bag deployment the advice about wearing a seatbelt and sitting as far back from the dash as is safe. If you've ever been hit in the face with one of these you know exactly what I mean.
I'm pretty sure that should say \"brass bushings\" and not brushings.
Also another one of a million reasons not to buy a crappy American car.