Buying a car when airbags have been stolen?

[AVSTANG02]

I'd ask for a discount.

 

[here to buy 10+ year member]

WIth an avatar like that OP, you dont need a car!!! cars come to you cuz they get scared and dont wanna get on your gangsta side!!!!

 

[Andrizzle 10+ year member]

Yes people steal airbags all the time... It is not as uncommon as you would think. And a car without airbags that originally had them is considered salvage anyways. That is why it is so low.

 

[Innovative:Cory 10+ year member]

i might be wrong about the speed but how else is it wrong? you have to unground the car so it wont deploy. ive taken apart a few cars to do fiberglass work on a dash. ill tell you what, you make a video of you taking out an airbag without unhooking the battery or anything without it going off. we'll see whos full of shit in the end of that little video. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Gladly...would you care to place a little wager on this? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[tapout 5,000+ posts]

WIth an avatar like that OP, you dont need a car!!! cars come to you cuz they get scared and dont wanna get on your gangsta side!!!!

you really wanna go there? You are the originator of the gangsta sign....

 

[bones22 5,000+ posts]

depending on if its a legit dealership they can not sell the car off of the lot with no airbags.

i wouldnt even bother with the car or the dealership honestly.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I have removed airbags out of cars for TV. I dunno if it will deploy if battery is hooked up it will deploy or not. I know it won't without it.

I have removed the power to my airbags, as I do not want them to go off.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I think OP has a pretty good deal if a bodyshop says the frame is straight.

 

[Johnny Law.Lulz 5,000+ posts]

Wrecked is a pretty good possibility, I'd carfax it to be sure. Still, being stolen really isn't out of the question...those things go for a few hundred if I recall right. If that's all it really was, then it's not a *huge* concern, but definitely get it checked out front to back by a mechanic. If they balk at that, walk away.

try a few g's The 2 side impact bags in my trailblazer cost 3K.

Carfax it. Ask them how long it has been since they were "stolen" Make sure if it was an accident that it will show up on the carfax.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

carfax doesn't mean shit...

I have seen cars in the junkyard with clean carfax...broken (not bent, broken) frame....severe damage etc.

For instace, my bluecar can get run over by a tank and will have a clean carfax.

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

first off you cannot steal any airbag out of a car. they come out at over 300mph. you need to unhook the battery and wait at least a half hour to be able to remove them without deployment. and to remove it, you need to remove the glove box in most cars because the two bottom screws are right behind it. if i were you, i wouldn't bother with that car. the frame could be twisted if the impact was so great the airbags deployed. move on and report to his insurance agency that he is driving the car without airbags.

yes, they can get stolen. i used to watch "Masterminds" on court tv, a show about criminal masterminds, and this guy became a millionaire steeling airbags out of cars and reselling them on ebay and then even opened his own store strictly selling airbags. he went from selling his stolen airbags on ebay, and then actually opened up a chain of stores selling these stolen airbags. at one point airbags had no ID on them so police couldnt prove he was selling stolen merchandise. then honda started putting the vin on them and he was finally caught. was worth 40 million dollars at the time he got caught.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Hard to sell $40MM in airbags...I didn't know it was that big of a market...

Maybe in gay NE states where they check the structural integrity of the car during inspection. In TN, there can be a fucking hole there and there is no issue.

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

carfax doesn't mean shit...
I have seen cars in the junkyard with clean carfax...broken (not bent, broken) frame....severe damage etc.

For instace, my bluecar can get run over by a tank and will have a clean carfax.

this is partially true. i believe that in order for the carfax to have anything on it there had to have been a police report as well as an insurance claim. if a car simply got hit, and no police or insurance, i think it goes unreported and therefore wouldnt show up on a car fax.

carfax is still better than nothing though.

 

[bones22 5,000+ posts]

if for some reason you actually buy the car and dont make them replace the bags. you can get some from salvage yards for 150 up to 1000+

for the $6000 they are asking tell them to replace them and you will take the car for 5000

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

this is partially true. i believe that in order for the carfax to have anything on it there had to have been a police report as well as an insurance claim. if a car simply got hit, and no police or insurance, i think it goes unreported and therefore wouldnt show up on a car fax.
carfax is still better than nothing though.

Exactly. If BC got hit by a tank, I probably wouldn't report it. It has a giant dent in the door where previous owner sideswiped a fire hydrant....comes up clean on the carfax.

I would take it to a body shop and pay them $50 - 100 or whatever to fully inspect the frame, door gaps, window seals, etc.