Greetings all,
where do i start? coming home sunday night, doing about 60, suddenly a 2 second "light vibration" large crack, loss of drive and a jingling from under the car. Tried to slow down in a controled manner when suddenly there was a dredfull bang and immense knocking under the gearbox tunnel, there was sparks coming under the console and a large red glow from beside the passenger seat. The car was full of smoke, we pulled over and got out asap. After a calm down i looked back inside,no fire but passenger seat airbag had deployed. Under the car the front prop had parted at uj on g/box end and wedged itself between g/box and tunnel. Had real good look this morning and removed prop, there is a 6"x4" gash in tunnel wall,gear selector switch smashed to bits and cable linkage and bracket broke,Gear selector shaft into g/box is also bent but prob will strieghten. Now for the advice, is it likely to have caused any other damage ? ecu etc. What activates the seat airbag and will it need replacing? does anything need hooking up to a computer to reset anything? im thinking of replacing the seat rether than the airbag. Any info or ideas gladly welcome. new prop/switch and cable ordered. cheers phil
where do i start? coming home sunday night, doing about 60, suddenly a 2 second "light vibration" large crack, loss of drive and a jingling from under the car. Tried to slow down in a controled manner when suddenly there was a dredfull bang and immense knocking under the gearbox tunnel, there was sparks coming under the console and a large red glow from beside the passenger seat. The car was full of smoke, we pulled over and got out asap. After a calm down i looked back inside,no fire but passenger seat airbag had deployed. Under the car the front prop had parted at uj on g/box end and wedged itself between g/box and tunnel. Had real good look this morning and removed prop, there is a 6"x4" gash in tunnel wall,gear selector switch smashed to bits and cable linkage and bracket broke,Gear selector shaft into g/box is also bent but prob will strieghten. Now for the advice, is it likely to have caused any other damage ? ecu etc. What activates the seat airbag and will it need replacing? does anything need hooking up to a computer to reset anything? im thinking of replacing the seat rether than the airbag. Any info or ideas gladly welcome. new prop/switch and cable ordered. cheers phil