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Evening. We bought a Mazda Bongo last year and took it round Europe with our 2 boys. Loved it, but boy is it small. We're keen to get something a bit bigger and to do our own conversion. Our drive is very short, so we're limited to an L2.
We're struggling to find ANY Boxers, Relays or Ducatos with passenger airbags, anywhere. I can see it's an optional extra from new, but they just don't seem to exist second hand. Is this really the case, or do I need to be more patient in my searching?
Like you say, the passenger airbag is on the option list so most fleet managers don’t spec them as they generally only have a driver sitting in them. I myself have bought 2 new Boxers for my own use and to be honest I forgot to spec them when I ordered!
I think you could get them but I think they are extremely rare (like finding one with 2 single seats)
Parts available on eBay. Get the right van & get a specialist to fit?
Is that even an option? Can you retro-fit air bags?
If you crashed one with airbags they would be replaced. The hole is in the dash already, I expect the loom is there to accommodate it. The cost of making a loom specially for the ones that have the option would be prohibitive. Speak to a good auto electrician. You will be pulling it to pieces inside anyway when you do your conversion so it would be a good time to do it.
Don't crash and you won't need it....
What Alpin said would be ideal, but
https://coastalmotorhomes.co.uk/body-exhaust/air-bags-seat-belts.html
Helpful. Of course this is all driven by the fact that I think our only option is the Boxer/Relay/Ducato L2 H2. Our drive is very shallow so we can’t fit a longer vehicle on which makes me think our only option is to sleep transverse.
Are these the only vehicles where this is possible? I don’t want fins on the side of a Sprinter - too much faff. Also insulation will need to be thick as I’m keen to ski from the van in the winter.
I wanted to fit a passenger airbag to my Iveco.
I found the plug in the loom and it has a resistor in it so the computer can 'see' an airbag plugged in but when I found an airbag and the fascia/trim for it for my model, the plug didn't seem long enough or match. Started getting doubts about whether there are more cables and perhaps mounting brackets to fit in the dash so I got cold feet about spending
I've forgotten all about it but the resister being plugged in makes me pretty certain it would be plug and play.
Yeah, and it’s not the sort of thing where it’s ok to think it works but then find out it doesn’t!