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YOUR RESEARCH1998 996 with no airbag in doors
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Inspect every two years
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But Porsche recommends they are inspected every two years!
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Yes , I do....It is done at the "appropriate Porsche Service Interval" and involves inspecting the air bags ,seat belts,for tampering or for foreign objects attached or sick-ons on the air bags < you'd be supersized at what people will stick to the passenger air bags on the dash that can become projectiles into an eye socket, like Thermometers, Compasses, clip board holders ect....
Leading evidence: 'Inspect every two years' (no explicit attributable resolution; this is a reported action or suggestion). Across 1 matching discussions, the most frequently mentioned possible cause is 'most of us are driving around' (1 discussions; 0 report identifying it and 1 suggest it). The most frequently discussed action is 'Inspect air bags ,seat belts,for tampering or' (1 discussions). For that action, 0 discussions report a resolution and 0 report an unsuccessful attempt. No action has an explicit, attributable resolution report under the current rules. These are forum reports and suggestions, not a confirmed diagnosis.
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According to the Porsche 996 Essential Companion on page 381, "All 996s are fitted with a full-size air bag system for driver and passenger as well as side air bags."
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I suspect most of us are driving around with cars where the airbags are perished, and won't deploy when the car asks.
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Yes , I do....It is done at the "appropriate Porsche Service Interval" and involves inspecting the air bags ,seat belts,for tampering or for foreign objects attached or sick-ons on the air bags < you'd be supersized at what people will stick to the passenger air bags on the dash that can become projectiles into an eye socket, like Thermometers, Compasses, clip board holders ect....
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Inspect air bags ,seat belts,for tampering or
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Yes , I do....It is done at the "appropriate Porsche Service Interval" and involves inspecting the air bags ,seat belts,for tampering or for foreign objects attached or sick-ons on the air bags < you'd be supersized at what people will stick to the passenger air bags on the dash that can become projectiles into an eye socket, like Thermometers, Compasses, clip board holders ect....
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According to the Porsche 996 Essential Companion on page 381, "All 996s are fitted with a full-size air bag system for driver and passenger as well as side air bags."
Use piwis drive links, "eject" the pop-up roll bars
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includes hooking up the PIWIS and test for faults in the air-bag system, seat belts, cash sensors, and if a Cabriolet includes opening the top and removing the roll bar covers and using the PIWIS Drive LInks, "eject" the pop-up roll bars to make sure that they work and then resetting them..
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When I see pictures of other 996s, they all seem to have side impact airbags in the doors. Mine does not.
My 911 don't have speakers in the doors either, just a storage compartment. I don't have a sunroof and for some reason the seats and gear tunnel leather only - are green. So perhaps the original owner was a bit strange.
I can understand a sunroof delete, but door airbag delete sounds weird. Was airbags in doors only available in later 996.1s?
Same for me, 996 C2 early 1998, no airbags in the doors, German spec.
I guess the really early once did not come with these airbags, or option, but that feels strange.
According to the Porsche 996 Essential Companion on page 381, "All 996s are fitted with a full-size air bag system for driver and passenger as well as side air bags."
Don't know if there is an exception to this.
The only fatality I have worked on in a 996 was a side impact where the airbags did not deploy. I suspect most of us are driving around with cars where the airbags are perished, and won't deploy when the car asks.
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This statement applies to US Market, since FMVSS mandates side airbags from 1997 (for MY 1998 cars)
In Europe, side airbags only became mandatory in 2009, although crash regulations from 1998 made it very hard to pass the tests without them.
So for cars sold in 1997 and 1998 side airbags were optional.
I would be actually curious to weigh those early models, without speakers and without airbags in the door
That is nice of you to say. It was advertised with little interest in my country because of the green leather seats. The car was mint except for the strange seat color, but when I went to see it in person and test drive it, I was sold. The green color is a darker shade of green in real life than in the picture and I didn't think it looked that bad. And now I love it, it makes it a bit more unique and with the fried eggs headlights it is to me a bit of a time capsule of late 90ies estetics. It is not the right car for someone looking for a 911 that looks like the newer 911s, but it is truly a 90ies car
And since it is an early one, it has the less plastic fantastic, and the grey sparkly/more scratch restistant kind of interior. This isn't the best picture to show it, but it is what I have at the moment.
Yes , I do....It is done at the "appropriate Porsche Service Interval" and involves inspecting the air bags ,seat belts,for tampering or for foreign objects attached or sick-ons on the air bags < you'd be supersized at what people will stick to the passenger air bags on the dash that can become projectiles into an eye socket, like Thermometers, Compasses, clip board holders ect.... includes hooking up the PIWIS and test for faults in the air-bag system, seat belts, cash sensors, and if a Cabriolet includes opening the top and removing the roll bar covers and using the PIWIS Drive LInks, "eject" the pop-up roll bars to make sure that they work and then resetting them..
Yes they do, I think they started in the 997 models IIRC..
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