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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
You can remove the air bag on a W126 without pulling the wheel. Its pretty simple actualy did it once, someone needed the plastic cover and I had a spare.
I can safely say that I am not the slightest bit concerned about this.
If you want new air bags that bad cough up the money for a new car. Even new Kia's blow up like a ballon when you are hit. They have like 10 side impact airbags, nice to know if you are ever hit.
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The airbags Im most impressed with are the side curtain airbags (who wants a shower of broken saftey glass in their eyes after getting their car destroyed?) and the head protection airbags (keeps your interior clean from blood and brains by preventing you from cracking your skull open on a side pillar or windshield pillar).
Some of the Swedish cars Volvo and Saab are equipped with some additional saftey features that are not in Mercedes Cars. My Volvo S70 had a reinforced piece of metal that rose up from the door sill right near your hip. I think it was the SIPS system Side Impact Protection System. The other feature was the Whipps system which was a whiplash protection system. The seat track was equipped with energy absorbing components that would allow the entire seat to move back and forth to absorb the impact energy of a rear end collision rather than your neck and back.
A Doctor friend of mine got a free demo of the Whipps system while his C70 was in the shop for service. The S70 Loaner he was driving got rear ended by a fully loaded box truck and the entire rear end of the car got destroyed pushing him into another vehicle in front of him. He walked away without a scratch and was only slightly annoyed because his breifcase got mashed in the trunk.