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Re: NO LBC, but a car question

To: Rob Lewis <bugeye@austin.rr.com>
Subject: Re: NO LBC, but a car question
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 08:15:43 -0400
Cc: "'spridget list'" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
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In the very early days of air bags that would have  been  good advice. 
Since then they have been designed to power down in a very short period 
of time ,  reason being that there were apparently instances of air bags 
deploying well after the accident and causing more harm than good .

Regards
John

Rob Lewis wrote:

>I would recommend disconnecting the battery for at least 15 minutes.
>Give the charge plenty of time to discharge.
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>Disconnect th battery for a minute or two and you'll be perfectly safe. 
>The  air bag connector has a shorting bar in it so once it's 
>disconnected it's extremely difficult to set off.
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>William M. Gilroy wrote:
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>>I figure someone on the list has had to do this, so here goes.  About 
>>1 year ago my puppy chewed my headlight switch off in my 95 Toyota 
>>Corolla.  I fixed it at the time with some tape, but the NJ inspection
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>>weenies failed me for the switch.  So nowI have to replace the sucker.
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>>I just shopped around for a manual and they appear to be a bit hard to
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>>find.





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