pete944

Porsches have great brakes and even better seatbelts. Ask Bill Underwood.

UDPride

Pete-

Never heard of that, but makes sense. My 92 GS-R (God rest her soul), had no bags but did have mice. I'm odd, but I actually ended up getting used to them.

AndyK

True...but every added safety device increases the odds in your favor. I would guess even older airbags have sensors that are protected from the elements...good as new. If they weren't, the light would go off on the dash, right?

Plus, the airbag wheel isn't as skinny and old looking as the non-airbag wheels...and I thought the 968CS wheel felt TOO thick. YMMV, of course.

pete944

Bill Underwood has a great 944 site. He has a story on it about a 944 he drove off a cliff and lived to tell about it.

Matt H

Andy - if it makes you feel better I am not in love with the CS wheel either. I would like to have a 996 sport wheel though! If I can ever find the Carbon tequipment one for less than 1K I might even be interested.
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K27

Don't worry at the rate they are selling you won't be able to buy a 944 without one

Damian in NJ

Alex, are you sure about Brit steering wheels? Every picture I've seen of British cars has been with regular wheels, except CS cars or where it's been converted. I've been buying 911&Posche World for years, and most images show the regular airbag wheel in 968 photo's.

Ski

Just a note,,,about what I had posted on AJUSA. I sent an email to them this morning(Friday morning), still no comment back. They will get a call back on Monday. I did however call my friend, as I stated, he knows he getting the wheel and told him to call AJUSA and bring "Nick" up on the line. I'll find out what happened to day.

Ski

I thought everyone might like to see the email I just got,,it must have come in last night.


Brett,

It was not said to me that the wheel was purchased or noticed on
Rennlist as
we only give that discount to Rennlist members.

I am more than happy to give that price and also issue a refund of the
difference, I will be contacting Veronica to inform her.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Thank you and my apologies for the confusion,

Nick Ottaviano
AJ-USA Inc.
www.ajusa.com

That just put them in my top five vendor list. I sent back a nice reply thanking them and told them I would post up the reply. Great to know that we have a stand up guy in Nick.

I just looked outside,,we've got 2" of snow on the ground,,and I WAS going for a cold weather boosted drive today,,not now.

turbo944

Actually, having your airbag in a 15+ year old car, are you sure it will even actually work? I would wonder with an airbag system that old how good the charge still is. I was thinking I read an article somewhere about older airbags and service life and such, but I don't remember now. If you have an older airbag, it might be worth investigating to see what the service life on one is. Might be due for a $$$$ replacement. One more thing to add to the expensive maintenance on the nearly 20 year old 944 you drive!

Whoops...did a search and found a one....suggests they might be getting old....somewhere else stated that 100,000 miles was about what they were good for, but that's silly as some cars here will be 20 without that mileage and some cars get that in 2-3 years.

http://drive.fairfax.com.au/content-...XQWW24BLD.html

Rich Sandor

GOOD JOB AJUSA!!!

Also, note the influence of "the rennlist"

hahahaha

Mark Lue

Different strokes for different folks !!! I too considered getting the CS wheel for the fact that it was a an original Porsche wheel but when the Toronto Dealer gave me the price plus a 2 month wait time coupled with the fact that my PCA discount would only pay the taxes, I relented. I finally decided on the AJ wheel after seeing the CS and the AJUSA wheels in other cars. I am happy with my wheel and crest, I think the crest really makes the wheel stand out. IMHO it updates the interior and looks similar to the wheel/crest in the newer cars. AJUSA installed the crest and it appears centered to me, they gave the best service of all the venders I have delt with in recent memory.

Tifosiman, nice wheel and gages where can I get the gage faces to buy ?

RSflared72e

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I tend to think that no airbag is better than a 15 year old 1st generation airbag.
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My thoughts as well<<

Me three.

Ask Dave M what one of these H-bombs looks like when it goes off...or anyone who's been around one of the many track cars who have had these first-gen devices go off unexpectedly. Plus, it's one more piece of weight you can remove.......

I have the 930S wheel on my S2 - I love it. Very meaty and looks like it belongs there.

YMMV Al