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Originally Posted by JoeD
Not in and of itself, but enough damage to cause the air-bag(s) to deploy and the cost of a new SRS system on top of all the other damage needed to be repaired helps significantly. More often than not, if the air-bags go off...there is frame-damage.
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That, good sir, is false. As a firefighter in the metro DC area, I can honestly say that there are certainly some wrecks where there are frame damage, but the majority of them do not incorperate frame damage. It only takes 30mph of sudden deacceleration on most makes and models for deployment to occur. Frame damage at 30 mph? Possible, but probably not enough to total the car. Air bags are extremely expensive now because 1). The manufactor has to insure that it will actually work, and there is huge liability insurance that goes into making them... And 2). They use expensive metals to insure the detonation process, and have a very speific mixture of powders that chemically react to actually inflate the bag....