a whats up, my girls 2001 accord dx jus got broken into. both her airbags got stolen and her passenger window is busted. do the accords' airbags have some kind of value to them for someone to steal them?

 

Yes, airbags are a highly valuable item to theives. It's not uncommon for them to be stolen, among other things.

 

heh that sucks cant say ive heard of that one

 

yea i think they're worth 4 or 5 bills each.

 

Yeah, same thing just happened to my Mom's 94 Accord stock. Driver and passenger bags both gone--professionally removed--no glass or lock breakage. Nothing else taken.

 

Oh yeah, there's definately a market for stolen airbags.

Definately run this run through the insurance, they will be expensive to try to replace on your own.

 

my 90 accord has no airbags. no problem!

 

hahaha, werd.

but airbags arnt worth THAT much, i think they were worth 600. also, the reasoning behind is, when you replace an airbag legally, the insurance would have to consider the car like "damaged" or something, insurance goes up. but if you do it yourself, buy an airbag off the black market and fix dmg yourself, no report is needed.

 

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but airbags arnt worth THAT much, i think they were worth 600. also, the reasoning behind is, when you replace an airbag legally, the insurance would have to consider the car like "damaged" or something, insurance goes up. but if you do it yourself, buy an airbag off the black market and fix dmg yourself, no report is needed.</TD></TR></TABLE>

$600 isn't THAT much to you?

 

Your buying the airags off the black market that someone just stole form you.. good job

 

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my bad, i meant not compared to 4k, it doesnt seem that much.

 

Yeah, insurance is taking care of it now. Its at a dealership now to replace both bags and fix the glovebox. Close call, thought they'd have to "total" it as it was getting close to the current value of the car. Seems like those things need an alarm system of their own.

 

What was the total estimate?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mrvinyl33 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yeah, insurance is taking care of it now. Its at a dealership now to replace both bags and fix the glovebox. Close call, thought they'd have to "total" it as it was getting close to the current value of the car. Seems like those things need an alarm system of their own.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Holy cow, thats on an '01? That can't be right. I would have taken the cash and left the air-bags off.

 

when an airbag goes off and needs to be replaced, doesn't the control module need to be replaced as well? Thats what I heard and thats why I'll be selling the control module, wire harness and both airbags as a complete set from my totalled Accord.