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> This required transplanting the controls from a salvage steering wheel, which had a blown airbag, into my wife’s steering wheel. Reusing delicate parts from
by vntok 8y ago
> This required transplanting the controls from a salvage steering wheel, which had a blown airbag, into my wife’s steering wheel.
Reusing delicate parts from a salvage wheel that had a blown airbag does not seem particularly safe to me. Then again, at least it only endangers his presumably consenting wife and not third party drivers/pedestrians on the road.
- LoSboccacc 8y agoWell except the one it will crash into.
- mschuster91 8y ago> Reusing delicate parts from a salvage wheel that had a blown airbag does not seem particularly safe to me. Why not? The one part that matters for safety in a wheel is not delicate at all: it's the connection to the axle. Even if all power is suddenly dead, the vehicle can still be manually controlled. As for the airbag, I guess (and hope) that the author did replace it.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>Reusing delicate parts from a salvage wheel that had a blown airbag does not seem particularly safe to me. Well the existence of the entire used car parts industry seems to indicate otherwise. For some parts, especially out of production control modules over various kinds, used is the only option. Mechanical failure is a drop in the bucket in terms of road safety. Mechanical failure as a result of substandard parts (as opposed to deferred maintenance/repair) is such a small fraction of that drop I've never heard of anyone even trying to measure it specifically.