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Originally Posted by tundratom
will it work with the air bag sensors? the parking sonar? Looks great. Have been wanting to get a setup like this
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As far as park sonar works I'll have to see what kind of system the tundra's have. The FJ Cruiser sensors are all in the rear. We've been in the prototyping stages on the FJ rear and are almost ready for production on those. So far the Parking sensors have been fine. It was really just a matter of making sure we were not interfering with the spread pattern and making room for the sensors to fit. I imagine that the systems are pretty similar....
Air bags are one of those things that have a whole new world of junk attached. Here are the basics: Air bags are triggered by a sensor, usually an accelerometer of some sort. That sensor (or that sensor combined with a computer system) detects rapped changes in acceleration. The sensors can be a variety of places, but my guess is that Toyota has them mounted on the body of the vehicle up front. So for the most part they are independent of the bumper. In many vehicles, the sensor is actually mounted in the dash.
Now Our company does not claim airbag compatibility, mainly because we don't have the funding to take a brand new car and run it into a wall at high speed (though we dream about it
). For us that's really the only way to back up a claim such as that, though in theory the only factor that the bumper will change is the crush rate of the vehicle. Now if a sensor that is independent of the bumper, that is calculating the rate of change in acceleration, theoretically it should still work the same, but until we have the opportunity to test it in such a manner we won't be claiming airbag compatibility.
for some good info on airbags go here:
Howstuffworks "How Airbags Work"