[cmillsap]

that is a whole can of worms. just when do you change an airbag? i am sure many will jump in here. particularly those that have had an airbag pop on them.

i only changed the airbags on my 02 in the rear because they were really cracked badly. the ones on my 90 were not.

if they leak, then it is clear. if they pop, it is clear. otherwise it is a judgement call.

the airbags run about 200-250 bucks apiece and take a good mechanic two to four hours to change the rears and a couple of hours perhaps to do the front. maybe less, maybe more.

so it is not inexpensive to do. the other challenge is what steve bare was referring to. it is hard to know exactly what airbag you actually have. very few of them are labeled on the bag themselves and apparently all of them are labeled on a tag on the top or bottom of the bag mount, requiring you to take a bag off to know what one it was. that is what i had to have done for my tag bags.

then it is not always easy to source or find the bags. many of them you have to order and wait for them. newell seems to stock a pretty complete stock of them, but not sure if they have them for clear back to the 80's. just dont know.

thats my two cents worth.

tom

Tom, I believe the general consensus is that an airbag's useful life is abou 10 years

Chuck