Well i had my first accident...

WOW. That sucks. I really hope all works out well at the end. Keep us posted. Take care brother.

 

That sucks. Glad nobody was hurt.

Guess you shoulda hit her harder while you had the chance! Eh, hind sight...

 

That bullbar did shit for your truck, glad your okay, was your gf's car damaged badly?

 

Ahem...EX gf...



Sorry to be a meany.

 

I don't think the the bull bar is what kept the airbags from going off.

There is not some kind of trigger in or around the bumper. The airbag system has sensors (located in different places in different vehicles - sometimes in the steering column or on the firewall) that measure the force of deceleration of the vehicle. The sensors are accelerometers that measure the amount of force over time (think milliseconds) to determine whether an airbag deployment is merited. Time is a factor, because a characteristic of a crash bad enough to require an airbag is that there is a lot deceleration in a very brief period of time. If you put a strap on the frame at the back of the truck, and yanked it backwards from a standstill forcefully enough, and suddenly enough, it would set the airbags off. (That would have to be one heck of a strap...)

The bull bar MAY have been a factor in that it could have provided a little more metal to absorb energy, so your truck did not slow down quickly or strongly enough so that the sensor activated the airbags. But a really big pillow would have done the same thing.

So, why were you in the left lane with a bike passing you on the right is what I want to know?

 

haha ouch yeah it was coming for a while anyway.. it just sucks i wont have my truck back till November especially cuz my dash kit to put my pioneer head unit in just showed up today

 

Will you sell your hood?

 

lad your ok, rad support is welded on. also the inner fenders bend eassy. I have rebuilt 2 tacomas not mine. Not 2 hard parts are not that expensive.

 

Wow i forgot about this thread.. but I got everything back about 7 weeks ago and it looks great!! the shop did an excellent job, luckily no frame or suspension damage though. I got 2009 headlights out of it too haha

 

maybr this is somewhat of an older post, but i recently put a third bolt on my smittybilt bull bar so that it somewhat prevents my bull bar from driving into my front bumper, but i used really small bolts so the should sheer with a sharp impact. my question is, was your frame bent at all. or the bolts that the bull bar mount attaches to?

 

The bull bar was bent even farther where the 90* bends are and the mounts were also bent. The bumper brackets where they attach were also bent but i think that would have happened anyway

 

hey that's right in front of Smart and Final. I live half a mile away from there.