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I'm a panel beater by trade so I'll right some rough prices up tonight for your remove and refit/repairs and paint tonight. Not going to attempt to quote the suspension. Best off buying 2nd hand, getting all that refitted by a mechanic, having a wheel alignment and then driving it to a panel beaters.

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Ahh yeah use your old one lol. Will also need your old axles I think. Looking at the pic you may need a new axle.

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what I was trying to get at ^

the sensor in the door was triggered when you hit the pole,. hence the air bag. not because you hit a gutter. lol

the gutter impact is what would have deployed the air bag

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I've seen front impacts in fords 3x harder then that not even deploying an airbag. Weird.

Making good progress and don't wanna put you down, but I would have gotten the car to a panel beaters especially one with a chassis alignment jig before I even started sourcing parts.

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the impact damage to set off the air bag is from the suspension hitting the gutter not from the minor hit from the pole, it had to hit pretty hard to rip out the suspension

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the gutter impact is what would have deployed the air bag

are you sure?

seen a xr near my place do the exact same damage, no air bags. as he only hit gutter.

since when do air bag sensors get fitted to the wheels?

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Not sure if serious. :unsure:

It's an inertia sensor...not a physical switch that detects contact. Doesn't matter what hits where, if the vehicle is moving in a given direction and stops suddenly then airbags on the forward edge (in this case the side of the vehicle) will deploy.

They are essentially designed to cushion the body from hitting the interior of the car - not to prevent the object (gutter/tree/oncoming vehicle) from hitting the occupant.

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Freaky, they are saying that SRS module can detect a change in g-force using an accelerometer. You have the same thing in a smart phone.

The sudden stop would have been registered by the SRS computer which deployed the air bags.

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