Hey everyone, I've been a member for a while but I never got around to posting any pictures of my beloved '94 Celica, but I doubt you'd want to see her now. On my way back up to college after Spring Break, I got into an accident. A guy in front of me slammed on his breaks in stop-and-go traffic(in a construction zone no less) and I slammed on mine but it was no use. I rear-ended him, going no more than 15mph, leaving only a scratch on the rental 2004 Escape he was driving. What happened to my car was worse, much worse. My airbags deployed, shattering my windshield and two headlights, my hood bent up and is now misaligned, and there's a nice slice missing from the center of my front bumper. It didn't seem right to me that the airbags had gone off, and when I took the front end apart, I discovered that before the headlight shattered, it got shoved straight back into the airbag sensor, which was what caused them to deploy in what usually would have been a simple fender-bender.
The damage estimate on my car was about $6k, with just $1200 alone for the airbags (straight from the factory), excluding replacing the sensors and computer. Everything other than the airbags I have had good luck finding the service and/or parts for repair/replacements at a decent price, however I can't afford the $600 a piece for the airbags. I've searched high and low and even did a search here on these forums. I've found tons of airbags for '93's and below at lower prices, but I simply can't find anything for my '94. Any particular reason why others are so cheap and mine are hard to come by and ridiculously expensive? I was hoping that someone here would know of any retailers or sellers or any place that I could find these airbags for my '94 Celica for less than $1200?
I really, really want my car back. I miss her so much. >
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Any help is much appreciated!
The damage estimate on my car was about $6k, with just $1200 alone for the airbags (straight from the factory), excluding replacing the sensors and computer. Everything other than the airbags I have had good luck finding the service and/or parts for repair/replacements at a decent price, however I can't afford the $600 a piece for the airbags. I've searched high and low and even did a search here on these forums. I've found tons of airbags for '93's and below at lower prices, but I simply can't find anything for my '94. Any particular reason why others are so cheap and mine are hard to come by and ridiculously expensive? I was hoping that someone here would know of any retailers or sellers or any place that I could find these airbags for my '94 Celica for less than $1200?
I really, really want my car back. I miss her so much. >
> Any help is much appreciated!
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