CrashTestDumby

Your airbags did EXACTLY what they were designed to do. You weren't hit on the side nor did you have a frontal impact. Perhaps if you'd been pushed into something in front of you hard enough, the front airbags would have THEN deployed, but they weren't needed, so they did NOT deploy, if they had, they may have been needlessly wasted.


If a car going forward hit another car or a wall etc really hard in the front and only the side airbags deployed but not the fronts, that could be considered weird.
If a car was violently broadsided but only a front airbag was deployed, that could be considered weird too (unless it was not equipped with side airbags), BUT,

Being hit from behind and shoved into a car in front, with only the drivers airbag being deployed (no passengers), no matter how hard, is actually considered NORMAL, especially by the engineers who designed it.
It is ONLY "weird" to you and others who don't understand PROPER airbag deployment factors.
Yes it is a fact that your son, or boy, or friend that's a boy, boyfriend or whatever your slang says he is, had a high speed contact with only one airbag going off. However, the fact that he indeed had a "high speed contact" (collision) and only one airbag deployed, does not necessarily mean there was a malfunction and by no means should it be considered "weird" by anyone unless perhaps they have a skewed perception of why airbags are deployed in the first place as you obviously have. You seem to have "learned" about the operation of airbags by some experiences you've had. Having been "blasted" (a poor description of the actual incident) without any airbags deployed means little. These experiences you've had are not necessarily indicative of the proper operation of airbags however! They could possibly deploy when they seem to not be needed and sometimes the opposite happens too. (We may call these type of phenomenons a "malfunction") Having been hit from directly behind and or directly from the front, no matter how hard, does NOT mean the side airbags should also be deployed as you apparently believe. I'm not sure why you didn't learn this by reading monkey's post, it was pretty clear imo. Each airbag bank, front and sides, has it's own sensor. If the direction of impact does not dictate it, the non needed airbags will NOT deploy.
Believe it or not, airbag deployment does NOT depend only on the severity of the impact, it also depends on the direction of the hit.
Your skewed perception of airbag operations reminds me of an airbag myth I've seen around here on numerous occasions.
While not mentioned in this thread, many times people say/write that a car will be considered totaled if any airbags are deployed. While this may be the case at times, it is not simply because of the airbag deployment, it just adds significant amounts to the repair cost, which may then be enough to consider it totaled.

If after reading my post, you still don't understand and you think that the examples you posted are "weird", try reading mine a few more times. If it still isn't making sense to you, we'll just chalk it up to English being a secondary language, at least that would be my guess, if I had to after reading your other previous posts elsewhere.
I hope I've helped to clear up some misconceptions here, if not, well, sometimes nothing can. Good Luck.

RISKY GUY

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RISKY GUY

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EDIT: I will learn how to post appropriately

quakerroatmeal

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Any updates about the car/insurance and what they've said so far?

baileyrx

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totalled...

terrycs

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This looks WAY worse than mine was ... and mine was totaled. Glad he was not hurt .. but sorry for the loss.

R.G.I.O.D.M.F.

Hi Risky Guy. Sorry about what happened to your friends car. I have a question. Why should the side curtain airbag go off if the car had only front/rear damage? Was it hit on the side as well or are the airbags all supposed to go off at the same time if the car is hit really hard?
Thanks.

RISKY GUY

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As far as I understood, the car has various sensors to determine when to deploy.
On a 3/4 hit in the nose why would it no go off.
I was involved in a nasty front end crash.
The main airbag never deployed.
Witnesed a t bone hit & side curtain went off.
So I guess it depends on angle & speed.

RISKY GUY

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For sure. It's done.

jmann

I am pretty sure all leases from Infiniti have to include gap coverage. Insurance pays and if there is any debt left gap pays, then the contract ends. Other leasing companies may not include gap.

RISKY GUY

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It's being fixed 14k in damages, thanks for playing guess the total game.
Zero frame damages & all cosmetic, just a front lower link broke.
The rest is all bodywork.
He's not happy.

FourT2

$14K in repairs? He is happy? Is the repairs done or it is just the prelim estimate? IDK, but I would not be happy if, I was starting at 14K repair estimate, I would be talking about getting the car totaled.. In my experience, they started at about 9K, then a few more change orders, after eventually being at 23K when I actually got to drive my car home. The second time I had major damage, I told another (because the previous one decided to milk my insurance) body shop to cut the BS so they came in at about 21K at the beginning, thus totaling the car..

In any case, I hope your buddy is made whole.

blnewt

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He said he's NOT happy.
That is a heavy damage estimate and like 4T2 mentioned could very well go higher, especially factoring in extra labor that may be needed to get all the gaps correct and any paint that may not come out to the owners satisfaction.
Hope it works out as it's getting very close to what should be considered totaled.