Can an airbag be shipped legally, ?cost?

[das97M3]

Anyone know how to legally ship an airbag steering wheel and the cost?
txs
Dave

[mitchelrl]

it's illegal to ship airbags? lol

[Ace M3]

it's illegal to ship airbags? lol

:nono Why are you laughing at him?

AFAIK, its deemed dangerous by a lot of shipping companies and a BMW dealership will NOT ship it. They explicitly say they will not ship because its dangerous, and they will not just give it to anyone cause of liability issues. They usually only sell to mechanics, etc, authorized people.

OP, Idk the answer to your question, but if you can do it 'legally' its probably pretty expensive

[Jrdeamicis]

1 thing - anti static bag.

[E30Alpina]

I have a E36 pass airbag just laying around, I want to sell but I dont want to ship it and get fined or something.

[thejlevie]

I think it may be shippable if in the original packaging, which includes a safety cage. I don't know if UPS or Fedex has restrictions that would apply, but the air bags do have to get from the distribution centers to the dealers...

[n00bjabi]

Put it in a pillowcase with a bunch of candy, put it in a box, send it to your friend. No one will suspect a thing. I sent some pot to a friend in Hawaii like that. Put it in a sock with some candy, put it in a box with a little xmas card and it's good to go :D

[M Wringer]

Go to ebaymotors.com and look for them there. I found at least one for an E36 four spoke with shipping coming in at $25.00

[ilya1585]

As long as the airbag isnt filled with 10 pounds of Columbia's finest powder, you should not have a problem shipping. Package securely and ship away.

[ozbmw]

They need to shipped in safety cages which most large companies have but you must inform them what it is and usually you have to drop it to the transporter's depot.

[///36M]

USPS wont ship airbags. I dont remember if Fedex, ups and the others have a problem.

This adds a step to the shipping process.

Basically, put the airbag in a different box and ship.

[MetaGear89]

As long as the airbag isnt filled with 10 pounds of Columbia's finest powder, you should not have a problem shipping. Package securely and ship away.
:lol

[M Power623]

They should be able to ship them easily. My dad always buys airbags from junkyards across the U.S. and they just shipped it in a regular box, packed with newspapers by either UPS or FedEx.

[giterdone]

LoL, you know there would be one unhappy postman if he was walking down the road, bag on his side, and all of a sudden the bag goes off. :lol3

[rcem3]

I ordered one a couple months ago and never thought about it. The guy that I bought it from shipped fed-ex but I don't think it had any special labels.

[kinghawk]

Ive personally shipped out a few myself. Ive told them the first couple of times upfront and I got the shoulder shrug and went on shipping it.

[M III Pilot]

It is a hazmat and as such usually ends up costing more to ship.

Interesting bit of info for those of you who like to ship without disclosing hazmat.
http://www.oig.dot.gov/item.jsp?id=933

[The-Great-328ic]

this has never crossed my mind either, I have shipped and had been shipped one to me on regular boxes using usps

one suggestion is not putting your real name nor address on the box? lol

[epj3]

So you're all more concerned with it in the back of a fed-ex truck than <2 feet from your face? Any situation/condition/environment it'll see being shipped, it would also see in your car - if not harsher in your car. I wouldn't worry about it.

[M III Pilot]

So you're all more concerned with it in the back of a fed-ex truck than <2 feet from your face? Any situation/condition/environment it'll see being shipped, it would also see in your car - if not harsher in your car. I wouldn't worry about it.
You've obviously not worked in any kind of freight sorting facility.:cool

Not so much concerned when it's in the back of the truck, but what could happen to the people around it during transport through the system if it should go off.

[///36M]

LoL, you know there would be one unhappy postman if he was walking down the road, bag on his side, and all of a sudden the bag goes off. :lol3

How does the bag just "go off"?

[G///ME]

Put it in a pillowcase with a bunch of candy, put it in a box, send it to your friend. No one will suspect a thing. I sent some pot to a friend in Hawaii like that. Put it in a sock with some candy, put it in a box with a little xmas card and it's good to go :D

please keep your illegal activities private.

as for sending an airbag, it's not the safest thing to do, especially if it discharges. would be funny though seeing it destroy the hell out of a ups or fed-x truck. but not funny if it went off while being carried.

think of it this way. an airbag is a device that rapidly discharges with immense force and it can be looked at as a lethal weapon.

de-activating the unit would be a safe-way to transport it but i'm not sure if you can re-activate it as easily or legally as not to compromise the safety-factor of the unit.

[///36M]

Would you mind explaining how it goes off? Would it have to be hit with something? When in the car, I would assume something completes a circuit to deploy the bag. Am I wrong?

[AlaskaBimmer]

I'm sure if it's hazmat you would have to be a certified hazmat shipper....it's a boring as hell 3 day class on how to properly pack and label boxes and fill out forms. Most companies will take hazmat(for a much larger fee) as long as the shipper is certified and it is labeled and packed properly and is legal to ship. (ie fireworks are illegal to ship by air or ground by a normal person even with certification) I never thought I would read a 400 page book on how to label a box.

I had to sit through that class and get certified since my position required me to ship gas cylindars and air monitors with radioactive sources. I was always paranoid I'd fill out a form wrong.

There was a jet that went down in Florida a few years back was packed full of improperly labeled Oxygen canisters that were put on a plane they shouldn't have been next to incompatable cargo and the plane crashed and killed everyone. The guy who did that is in prison forever....

[giterdone]

How does the bag just "go off"?

Hellifiknow. I was just trying to get a little picture forming. Generally a circuit does have to be complete. I saw an air bag demonstration back in high school. It was just the bag assembly sitting on the ground. It was wired up to a switch, and the guy pushed the button/switch/whatever and it went POOF.

[NeilM]

No you can't ship them. You'll have to drive to the airbag factory in Germany and pick it up personally. Don't forget your wet suit and SCUBA gear.

Neil

[Jrdeamicis]

No you can't ship them. You'll have to drive to the airbag factory in Germany and pick it up personally. Don't forget your wet suit and SCUBA gear.

Neil

Want to lend him yours from the last time you went to germany?

[M III Pilot]

There was a jet that went down in Florida a few years back was packed full of improperly labeled Oxygen canisters that were put on a plane they shouldn't have been next to incompatable cargo and the plane crashed and killed everyone. The guy who did that is in prison forever....
Those Oxygen Canisters were chemical oxygen generators that release oxygen through a chemical reaction that produces alot of heat when it's happening, and not the classic Scuba type tank most people would picture.

Those cannisters had been mislabeled as empty oxygen cannisters instead of what they were, fully operational oxygen generators without the safety caps installed which is supposed to prevent their activation.

And since they were in the lower cargo hold along with other baggage when they triggered a very large and extremely hot fire resulted since there was lots and lots of oxygen being released by those chemical oxygen generators which resulted in the controls for the aircraft to be severed as they ran right below where that fire was.

Result was the airplane screamed to the ground completely out of control from the pilots, which had absolutely no way of doing anything.....

Resulting impact in the Everglades.
http://www.pilotfriend.com/disasters/crash/images/30.jpg

Hazerdous Material shipping regulations exist for a reason.
Sure most of the time things turn out alright, but when they don't things get serious very quickly.

Alright I'll get off my soapbox now.

[///36M]

Would you mind explaining how it goes off? Would it have to be hit with something? When in the car, I would assume something completes a circuit to deploy the bag. Am I wrong?

so, none of the internet genius's here can answer my question?

[G///ME]

so, none of the internet genius's here can answer my question?

i hope these internets genius'ss/sss''ss(s)ssss'sss'...;s[s]s can help you out. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/airbag1.htm

[///36M]

i hope these internets genius'ss/sss''ss(s)ssss'sss'...;s[s]s can help you out. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/airbag1.htm

so it would need a relatively hard bump to go off in shipping.

it crossed my mind to write 'geni'

[kbcobra289rs]

Your best bet is to check with Fed Ex Freight or another LTL carrier if their parcel division won't take it. Fed Ex Freight will take haz mat, it just costs a little more (mainly for the paperwork).

[giterdone]

so it would need a relatively hard bump to go off in shipping.

it crossed my mind to write 'geni'

if you've seen how some boxes are treated during shipping, you'd know a hard bump is quite easy to happen. :)

[G///ME]

i have nothing to contribute, i think the way an airbag works is just awesome.

[playzure]

I would think you wouldn't want it shipped on an airplane.

[fatter36]

pack it in a box, take it to UPS. job done

[hezamhm]

I've got mine shipped in a cardboard box with no newspapers whatsoever. Either I was lucky or it doesn't even work...

[Nik1703]

Put it in a pillowcase with a bunch of candy, put it in a box, send it to your friend. No one will suspect a thing. I sent some pot to a friend in Hawaii like that. Put it in a sock with some candy, put it in a box with a little xmas card and it's good to go :D


LOL!!!


NICE.

[M Wringer]

Fed Ex will ship it because that is the shipper our company uses. Since it is a hazardous material, there are certain forms/manifests to fill out to ship it LEGALLY. We just had to go through the explanations of the procedures at our last department meeting. It is a PITA to ship an airbag or a seat belt tensioner that uses pyrotechnics; but some vendors deal with it everyday.