Duncan's V37.......race car?

[The Bogan]

35 minutes ago, GTSBoy said:

I hope it's actually possible. This is a write off in insurance world.

Hopefully you can just unbolt them, thank them for their service, then bin them and not replace them

Apparently the sensors like to set them off with only minor impacts at low speed

It looks like they do a delete kit for some of these, but, it is costly 

[MBS206]

4 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

I hope it's actually possible. This is a write off in insurance world.

Nah, lots of insurance repairs on V36 and V37 for pedestrians deployments. Reasons ranging from possums, to extremely severe potholes have deployed them.

However, paying for the full repair can still be upto $5k AU some people have noted!

[Duncan]

Having had a reasonable look at the car, I'll be able to remove the (one time) rams and retract the hinge (they are held in the down location by a tiny (m3?) sacrificial screw) which will get it physically back in shape.

From there if you remove the rams you need a resistor to turn off the airbag light (as Mark said, there are plug in kits and I might go that way because its reversible).

And...per all the threads on here, even if you have the resistors to turn off the airbag light, the bonnet light will stay on as it writes to the airbag computer history - that is either replace the airbag controller, reprogam the EPROM (if I can work out how), or remove the globe from the dash.

Having seen how sensitive this system is, if I had my time over I'd pre-emptively remove the rams, even on a road car, because this is all a very unnecessary pain in the arse.

Reminds me, time to go and have a look at the Fuga too....