@slippinjimmy wrote:
I agree but a faulty clock spring or faulty installation renders an air bag useless doesn't it?
Sure, but I'm not sure what you're getting at here (and I'm not criticizing your research 🙂). Clock springs will need replacement when the existing one wears out and breaks. Anything in the steering wheel can lose power at that time. In the case of something critical like the airbag, a warning light will illuminate to show that there is no continuity through the firing circuit to enable it to deploy.
A faulty installation is not likely to fire the air bag. A typical system has multiple deceleration sensors (e.g. on the radiator support, on the firewall, in the dash and elsewhere) that must signal within a very narrow timespan (definitely less than a second) before the controller will deploy the airbags, and it takes a majority "vote" of the sensors to trigger, so in other words, you can't accidentally trigger the system by bonking one sensor with a wrench.
So anyway, I am getting way off-topic. I will just agree with the others here that banning clock spring sales simply on the basis of some connection to air bags is misguided, but this is eBay's forum to run as they please.
