Toyota Trucks: Was my airbag stolen?

"Doug Herr" <invalid> wrote in message
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You'd need a tech or a manual to tell you for sure, but I'd be flat out
amazed if the airbag light didn't come on and stay on if somebody took the
airbags out. Surely the system polls them to see if the circuit's complete
at startup?

He might have been getting *ready* to steal it and cut and ran for some
reason. Way back, I had an '82 Regal that I came home to find running. On
the street. With no keys in. Somebody had broken in, cut the column, started
the engine, and then been interrupted. He either ran before he could break
the steering lock, or couldn't break it, because that was the only thing
remaining before you could put the car in gear and drive away. *I* broke it,
and drove the car like that for a month before I could get it fixed.

"Gone in Sixty Seconds" and like that notwithstanding, your average car
thief is a punk, only knows a few tricks, and will run like a scared rabbit
at the first sign somebody's on to him. (Note that I said "average.") I
called an acquaintance of mine who happened to be, um, knowledgeable about
car thieves, and he told me how to break the steering lock and a few other
tips.

D

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 07:23:35 -0800, Dreamer wrote:
 

Yup, the light comes on at key/on and then goes off once started,
just like normal. I have pulled out the glove box and removed a
plate above that and did see what looked like the bottom of the
airbag system. It *looks* like nothing was removed, but I guess
it really would take a proper mechanic to verifiy that nothing
was damaged by the pry attempt.

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Yup, and this happened sometime between 8am and 4pm, which would
make it broad daylight so I would not expect him/them to have
much time to fiddle about.

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Doug Herr
doug*at*wombatz*dot*com

"Doug Herr" <invalid> wrote in message
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Oh, I knew you'd have mentioned it if the airbag light was on - I just meant
that it seemed extremely likely that removing an element from the circuit
would cause a malfunction indicator lamp to come on when the computer polled
the circuit. Since one's not on, I'd be amazed if the circuit wasn't
complete.
 

By all means take it to a mechanic, but since the light's not on and
everything looks to be in order, I wouldn't worry about it overmuch.

D

Wouldn't the dash or center of steering wheel be attached to the airbag?
Isn't that something that is one unit? I could be wrong.

Either way, the airbag light should come on and stay blinking when engine
running. I blew my seatbelt tensioner and that light drove me nuts. haha

Even if they did steal it, I doubt they would put the dash back for you

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On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:50:13 -0800, Brad P wrote:

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Just to be sure I am clear...

I was only figuring that they might have taking the passenger
side airbag or part of it. And as you note, this could only
include something that could be taken right out of the hatch/door
that the passenger airbag flies thru when the bag activates/pops.

It may be that there is nothing worth taking that can be taken
via that hatch/door, but this is where I just have no clue.

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Doug Herr
doug*at*wombatz*dot*com

Doug Herr wrote:
 

Yes, they may have thought it was the glove box, in a hurry, scared etc.
But stealing air bags is becoming a problem. Kids jack them sell them to
body shops for a hundred dollars, they charge your insurance (body
shops) over $800 each. If it was off or unplugged, it would of had a air
bag light on. Usually body shops will "order:" the bags, ie 98 Tacoma,
blue interior etc.

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