Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 550/575 Off the Road

[Doug & Terri (dnt]

Dick asks the question "an F550/F575. . . . should (or would) be taken off
the road because the OEM airbag cannot be repaired because OEM parts are no
longer available? There must be a fix."

If air bags (Supplementary Restraint System) are anything like catalytic
converters - it only needs to be an approved part by the state repair parts
governing body.  For instance there are tons of 4 barrel carbed cars out
there with CARB approved replacement Edlebrock carbs.  

But I don't think it was lack of an OEM SRS that caused the 'total' it was
lack of an SRS ignition computer designed within the Ferrari computer
systems.  As I noted before - lots of chatter 6 to 10 years ago because jump
starting an F550 and others fried the TRW SRS ignition computer.  Now I
couldn't find anything newer on any of the chat blogs.  Maybe I just looked
in the wrong spots.

DOUG