Unfortunately I won't be reppin a lancer for a few weeks, instead I'll have a POS '00 chevy cavalier (sp?)

Anyways, on topic here, I was rearended around noonish yesterday pretty hard, roughly 20-30mph assumed by the guy that hit me. However, my airbag didn't deploy at all... now I'm not the biggest tech guy so I don't know if ours only go off on front end collisions or not, but any info you guys have would be a help.. cause if they didn't fire and it's a factory problem there might be a lawsuit involved and I need to know.

Oh, and I'm fine, but my lancer has a few thousand in rearend damage

Thanks for your help guys.

 

i would think it only deploys on front end collisions cuz my bro dave reversed his civic and hit a pole n like f'd his civic up...but no deployment and yet he hit another pole in da front less severe n they went off...hehe a lil info might be some sort of help...i dont crash cars or get into acc's much.
1 less civic makin room for 1 more lancer

 

talked to my body shop and the guy told me that if there is no direct damage to the sensors for the airbag it probably wont go off... hes checking into whether or not the rear sensors were damaged

 

The airbag is supposed to catch your head while it is travelling forward after a front end impact. You wouldn't want it to go off in a rear end collision when your head is instead going to be thrust into the headrest like it's supposed to. All that would accomplish is increasing your repair costs significantly to repack the bags.
-N

 

Yeah, they only deploy on front end impacts over 25 mph. Also, if you lock your brakes up before impact, your spedometer reads 0 and your airbags will still not deploy. I learned this when saturn did an investigation of my 2001 sc2 last winter.