Tuesday, September 27, 2011

How much would it cost to buy airbags for a 1968 Ford Mustang?

I'm thinking about purchasing a 1968 ford Mustang Coupe, but I'm not sure how much the airbags would cost to buy and have them installed.Can someone help me out?|||Porbably about 250-700 dollars..|||why would you want a classic car if you want airbags. it will be hard to find someone to do it and it will be extremely expensive and not worth it. buy a car from the 90's and newer.

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|||I assume you're talking about air-bags for suspensions? You can check out Air-Ride Technologies.





http://www.ridetech.com/





If you're talking about safety air-bags, can't help you there. I don't think its possible.|||The previous poster is correct. You're looking at least $2000 just for the system. Then probably over $100 an hour for a technician who has the know how to install a custom engineering feat such as this. So I think $8,000 is probably on the low side. When manufacturers design airbag systems on new cars that are designed to handle airbags, they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. You're looking at a extremely financially infeasable situation to stick airbags on an old mustang. You could put in a safety cage, and a harness for under $10K if you're that worried.|||It would cost upwards of $8000. You're not just buying and installing airbags. You have to replace the steering wheel and dashboard, plus have the sensors installed on the bumpers. Honestly, it's not worth it. Wear a seatbelt.|||I believe you are asking about air-ride susp. maybe 3k.|||you mean safety airbags or airbags suspension???????|||There are no companies that make such a thing as retrofitted airbags. These safety systems are designed WITH the vehicle, not as an add-on. The sensors (plural), the wire harnesses, the crumple zones, the unibody construction, the airbags themselves and the spiral cable in the steering column are all designed by each manufacturer for each vehicle, and each vehicle is different than another.


Unless you are a master engineer, with a crash test facility to test your multiple installations for proper firing procedures (that means you have to crash about 10 or 12 mustangs with them installed and set differently to see which setting and adjustment is safer), you can't do it.


Sorry, I got on a rant there. Lot's of people would like to retrofit them,but they are too highly critical a system to be able to do like that. Cool choice of car though|||at least $250

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