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Originally Posted by okyoureabeast
I don't care much for air bags. It gives the insurance company an excuse to total a car then do a little body work and replace the air bag.
I do wish I had anti-lock breaks however. I'm not sure how such a feature would age especially from the 80s.
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they age very well. all the '80's vintage MB's in our family with ABS still work just fine. and i do test them once in a while. the airbags seem to work most of the time too, in the accidented models i've seen at the junkyard. after a certain model year, the SRS 'brain' module doesn't even expire. i think it was 1991 and later models. previous models have expiration dates, but i've still seen the airbags on those model years successfully deploy
in fact, i bet you could take the ABS right out of the w201 or w124, and retrofit it to the w123. just upgrade the w123's brakes to w126 brakes which have the ABS sensors, then grab all the hydraulic lines and abs unit, and the wiring harness that goes to the instrument cluster. i bet it's been done before