so you do or dont want your airbags to work? you are afraid to make them not function but adding a bumper which you claim is not airbag compliant, but now you worried about decapitating kids if they do deploy ???

im not following.


anyways, whatever.
I pulled off the crushcans when i tossed my stock bumper, no regrets, no worries. I dont believe i compromised the safety of my vehicle at all. crush cans to slow a low speed frontal impact ONLY if you have the supreme luck of actually hitting them are of little use or concern to me. The PLATE STEEL of my front bumper is going to protect me and my kids far more than a couple of soup cans will.

My 2C.

 

Good point. That would really suck though

 

*L* hey, i forgot about those pics.

 

You are right about the reasoning behind the cans... but the functionality is a whole different story. The airbags are controlled by a gyroscope type thing in the center of the vehicle (forgive my lack of technical lingo... but you get the point) which gauges the severity and location of the impact. The cans are there to absorb some of the initial impact in a slow, head on collision and might help to prevent the gyroscope from reading a more severe impact and activating the airbags. However, this is only assuming that you hit the cans dead on and that you don't have something along the lines of a roller fairlead that would block some of the impact. The likeliness of the cans being the deciding factor in airbag deployment is very low. If you want your kid to be safe from the airbag, put them in the back seat.

 

this is true but the problem is, if you install a winch and roller fairlead, it will stick out just a bit past the crush cans and in a straight impact, will prevent the crush cans from doing their job. and again, the crush cans are only as good as if they get hit.

this is true, the sensors are located under the passenger side front seat. they are the two silver boxes between the seat and seat track.

 

Exactly.

 

if you mean because they reuse the factory crush cans, sure, i guess so but again, the crush cans are only as good as if they get hit. if you hit a pole or tree dead on or have a winch, they are just as good as any steel bumper.

exactly, there is nothing in the bumper that will effect the air bags.

again, if you hit a pole or tree in the center of your bumper, it won't matter if you have crush cans or not.

 

No stress HC Don't get me wrong, I just want my airbags to deploy ONLY when needed(hope I never need them) I'm just one of those people who think something is better than nothing and better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it at all.

Ateast we have options. For anal people like me there are the ARBs, AEVs and Mopars. For everyone else there are the LODs, PureJeeps, Shrockworks, ect.

Also, what I was leading to about the decapitations is due to those unfortunate events things like crush cans became a federal mandate which in turn destroys my argument

Its all good

 

X2, but I don't have any kids yet, but if I did in the back seat they go. No doubt about it, but unfortunately some parents don't think this way and that is why these accidents happen

 

airbag won't be activate for the passenger seat unless the person is over a certain weight anyhow so shouldn't be an issue for children. my kids sit in back anyhow.