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I just got into a little bit of an accident this morning, spinning off of a road and took some damage the car including the air bags deploying. It looks like the air bags and a cracked windshield are all that I got, but since I never have had the air bags deployed and haven't had an estimate yet, I was wondering if people had an idea on how much fixing the airbags usually cost and any advice on things to be cautioned about when getting them fixed as well.

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Not 100% on this, but I am told they are several thousand dollars to replace...

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Hmm.. I hope you're wrong. Someone had guessed 1000 before, but if it's 4000 or something than the car is totaled.

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I have read that they can be about a grand a piece but it does depend on the quality of the car. I've heard that the cost can go up to around 5,000 for some expensive, luxury cars.

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I have read that they can be about a grand a piece but it does depend on the quality of the car. I've heard that the cost can go up to around 5,000 for some expensive, luxury cars.

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Well thankfully it's just a cheap 97 Ford Contour

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I've heard reports that unscrupulous collision shops don't replace them.  Anecdotally, I've heard that for some models, they have become a theft target.

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Is there a way to be sure that they have?

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Is there a way to be sure that they have?

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I would imagine so, but I haven't looked into it. Just that they are physically there under the steering wheel pad or passenger-side dash panel doesn't guarantee that they are functional.

 

Air bag replacement is really a job that you have a dealership perform...

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If you have collision on your insurance, you would only have to pay the deductable.

I don't remember how much it was to replace both airbags when I hit the deer about 4 years ago.

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$1000 each on average.  The most expensive cars are only about 2400-3000 max.

 

http://www.scienceservingsociety.com/p/155...ent%20cost'

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Yeah the car is only worth 2500-3000 on edmunds.com, so I guess they are likely to think it's totalled at this point. I have a high deductible of about 800 or so dollars and my sister crashed this car a couple of years ago so there already is a high insurance rate on top of the high rate for my age.

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I seem to recall reading somewhere that airbags 'chopped' from stolen cars usually fetch a few hundred apiece. (That's obviously for the airbags alone.)

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Yeah the car is only worth 2500-3000 on edmunds.com, so I guess they are likely to think it's totalled at this point. I have a high deductible of about 800 or so dollars and my sister crashed this car a couple of years ago so there already is a high insurance rate on top of the high rate for my age.

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Remember that is new airbags. If they can find them at a junk yard for 1/3 the cost then they may not.

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I guess airbags are good on the whole but in this particular instance I probably didn't need their deployment meaning that all I got from them so far looks like a big headache and a ruined car...

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