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Re: Some results [fintail] by bhill2
Jul 13, 2009 (11:51 am)
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Replying to: fintail (Jul 13, 2009 11:24 am)

Yeah, I'm in preparatory mourning over the '85 380SE that the missus and I bought, gently used, in '91. It has over 250K on it now and still runs almost like when we got it, and I swore that I would be buried in it. But I know that we are flirting with a potential wallet-flattening repair any time now and I think the C4C program may be our way out. It's just so hard to say goodbye.
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Re: Some results [bhill2] by fintail
Jul 13, 2009 (1:07 pm)
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Replying to: bhill2 (Jul 13, 2009 11:51 am)

I get sentimental with old cars, so if I had something that long...I'd have a hard time parting with it. Is it an airbag car? I assume it has ABS.
 
With those miles it would have to be amazingly perfect to be worth a penny more than the clunker trade in value, so if one looks at it via logic only, it might make the most sense.
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Blazer for Eq'ox by tomcatt630
Jul 14, 2009 (8:06 am)
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I read somewhere of a customer who used the 'clunker incentive' and traded in an early 90's Blazer for a new Equinox. Said the Blazer was worn down and needed a new car.
 
This may work for old SUV's, but there really are not that many old 'gas hog' cars around these days. Some politcos still think any old car gets 8 mpg as some 1974 era cars did, but by late 1980's most cars could get over the combined 18mpg threshold for the 'clunker bill'.
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Re: Some results [fintail] by bhill2
Jul 14, 2009 (12:05 pm)
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Replying to: fintail (Jul 13, 2009 1:07 pm)

You are right about the logic, Fin. As far as the safety devices go, ABS is a yes, airbags is a no.
 
Actually, I'm glad about the airbags; I lost most of the hearing in one of my ears to the sound of 2 fully-sized, fully-powered airbags going off inside an XK8. The irony, of course, is that both I and my passenger (aka wife) were wearing our seat belts and would have been fine without the bags.
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Re: Some results [bhill2] by fintail
Jul 14, 2009 (12:54 pm)
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Replying to: bhill2 (Jul 14, 2009 12:05 pm)

I know airbags appear randomly on US market 1985 W126...I don't know if they were optioned that way or simply made it to the lots. Things were pretty prosperous then, and I think those cars were selling as soon as they hit the dealerships.
 
Strange about the Jag, sorry to read that. Sounds like some faulty engineering. If it had been a pre-Ford Jag, they probably wouldn't have gone off
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Re: Some results [fintail] by bhill2
Jul 15, 2009 (11:56 am)
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Replying to: fintail (Jul 14, 2009 12:54 pm)

Oh, I don't think it was a defect. US standards dictate (or at least did) that the bags deploy with enough power to protect an unbelted (i.e. idiot) passenger. Two of them going of in an enclosed cabin the size of the one in the Jag produced a prodigious noise and change in cabin pressure. I think that's what did it. The insurance company seems to have thought that too, they made me have my hearing checked by their expert before they paid damages, but didn't pursue an action against Jaguar to recover.
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Re: Some results [bhill2] by british_rover
Jul 15, 2009 (12:21 pm)
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Replying to: bhill2 (Jul 15, 2009 11:56 am)

Yup that fits with what how the old style airbags worked. As airtight as a XK could be, assuming it was a coupe and all the door/window seals were in good working order, I bet that pressure wave was enormous.
 
At least the second gen and multistage airbags don't work like that anymore.
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Re: Some results [bhill2] by fintail
Jul 15, 2009 (6:01 pm)
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Replying to: bhill2 (Jul 15, 2009 11:56 am)

Wow, that stinks. I wonder if the same happens when the airbags in an old MB deploy.
 
I remember sometime in the 90s MB sought out the earliest airbag model they could find still registered, it was an early 1980 production date W126 - they bought the owner a new car and crash tested the old car to see what would happen. It functioned as designed.
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back on topic?? by tomcatt630
Jul 16, 2009 (7:28 am)
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Can this thread please go back on topic???? I'd like to see what kind of deals, or who is planning to use this program.
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Re: back on topic?? [tomcatt630] by fezo
Jul 16, 2009 (10:02 am)
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Replying to: tomcatt630 (Jul 16, 2009 7:28 am)

You might have to wait a little for the thread to go back on topic - technically teh program doesn't start for another week.
 
I do hear dealers now advertising the program - so far Ford and Hyundai around here.

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