My retro seats with EVEN better pics from RSJZ4 :)
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-Tom- said:Ilogik said:Look like the same place that did mine but in leather, sorry msport though
To be honest ... I fall out of my M Seats, I find the lateral support pretty crap. I bet the non sport seats are miles more comfortable.
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Tom, a park bench offers more lateral support than non M Sport seats. The first zed I tested had then and I thought I was going to slide off of them :lol:
I am not the one to give advice on the latest camera tech, sure someone on here can point you in the right direction ... Be worth the outlayJonny essex said:Any suggestions then, one i can hook un wireless to my i-pad, not expensive tho......the money goes on the Zed :roll:Dale_B said:Look the business JElike those a lot.
Your next investment needs to be a digital camera
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+1 on thissrhutch said:
If the airbags go off and there's no perforation in the leather to split and let them expand outwards, they'll most likely force off the whole doorcard which would hit you (or your passenger) with some force and could do you some serious damage
Jonny essex said:
How about a 2 tone wheel... To keep it unique? Red where the perforations are and black... All red would be too much.
PerryGunn said:
On the dash the airbag is sealed behind the dash lining, but still can break through... Is that precut? Wouldnt the leather door card just tear in the same way?
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The dash section is designed to open in a safe manner if the airbag is deployed - but that hasn't been modified.aquazi said:
As standard, the doorcards have a horizontal perforated line in the section of plastic over the airbag, which allows that section to open like a pair of barn doors (see below).
The leather (or other doorcard covering) is made to tear open on the same line - the leather is already cut and there's a seam that matches the line of the perforation in the doorcard plastic so the seam bursts open to allow the airbag through.
JE's doorcards look to be a solid piece of leather, there's no seam to burst so the plastic flaps in front of the airbag are unlikely to be able to open. Leather is tough stuff to tear so I think that the airbag would end up expanding behind the doorcard and would likely force the doorcard away from it's clips and throw it into the cabin before the leather tore
I'm sure this is a professional company and have made these compatible with the airbags, my guy did on my seats, you can't see from the outside...same as standard leather from the factory
Possibly, but it's worth JE asking the question now - it's too late after an airbag's gone off. I wouldn't like to be sitting in the car if a door airbag went off and pushed the doorcard into the cabin, it would probably do you more damage than the accident itself with no airbag.johnnnnnnyy said:
If you look at the standard doorcards (this is one of pawnsacrifice's pictures), you can see the seam in the leather that matches the perforated seam in the airbag pocket
This one from JE's post shows the leather as a continuous piece - diamond stitching but no seams to burst. When the airbag blows, the thread used sew up the seam on the standard cards will either snap or pull through the leather, a solid piece of leather such as that on JE's doors would have to tear/split open and while leather can be cut without much effort even a thin piece of leather doesn't tear or split very easily at all
It's all very well saying 'It'll never happen to me' or 'I'm not intending to have an accident' - the whole point is that accidents happen and, while some people remove things such as airbags when they're modding a car, it's another thing entirely to turn a safety feature into something that could cause serious injury.
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My airbag went off in my Z4 crash :
Looks like a big airbag but it barely inflated - did however burst the seams very well!
Looks like a big airbag but it barely inflated - did however burst the seams very well!
Considering they were done by a professional company, I'd certainly ask the question, and expect them to rectify with no cost implications if it's not right. Surely that's the reason you take something like this to an upholsterers and not just Dorris with her sewing machine?
It would have fully inflated when triggered. Airbags inflate fully in fractions of a second and then start to deflate immediately to cushion/slow down any movement of the occupant's body - if they stayed fully inflated there'd be little or no cushioning of the impactFunkyMunky said:My airbag went off in my Z4 crash :
Looks like a big airbag but it barely inflated - did however burst the seams very well!
If you look at this slow-motion video of an airbag deployment you'll see it inflate fully, then start to sag as it deflates
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