What is this part?

Found this thing behind the pass side rear piller plastic interior panel

What the heck is it?

--john

Airbag?


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gas canister for the airbag.

poke it. i dare you

The Car Stereo Company said:

gas canister for the airbag.

poke it. i dare you

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You are impossible ...LOL
Thanks, I needed that...

haha, luckily its shock resistant for the most part. its electronically activated

The Car Stereo Company said:

haha, luckily its shock resistant for the most part. its electronically activated

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I'm in a hotel room and you had me annoying my neighbors top, bottom, left and right

I figured the airbags were all the kind that u can hook to a battery and blow up. So the rear ones use a gas canister? Very cool.

After having a lot of the panels open a bit for my VHF install (See my thread on the electronics section) im realizing how many airbags the truck has. VERY COOL STUFF!

in all seriousness, that canister contains a chemical, that when triggered by an electric charge, ignites and expands as a gas, inflating and filling the airbags. the metal tube is so the gas doesnt escape and go in the wrong direction. i think the very first airbags had compressed gas but they could not inflate fast enough

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PropDr said:

I'm in a hotel room and you had me annoying my neighbors top, bottom, left and right

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im glad you got a laugh. haha

It's definitely a SRS pyrotechnic inflator, but I can't tell it's exact location in the vehicle. It looks a lot like the side air curtain inflator, but I believe I see a seat belt retractor in the photo too, so it could be the seat belt pyro pretensioner/retractor.

Canister for smuggling dope over the border..