What you didnt notice, is that when airbag explodes, it make airbag plastic hover break into two pieces, and thats the way how airbag jumps out. On the inside of the cover there is groove in the middle where cover is very thin and in exactly this place it will break during an accident. Now, when your airbag cover is sewed around with strong thread covered with leather, which is not brittle at all compared to thin plastic, now its unknown how airbag will behave, if it will be powerful enough to break this leather in the middle (maybe not and it will inflate into window side instead of your face?), and in case if it will rip, what injuries flying piece of leather can do to your face (maybe hit your eyes or something?). I found this video when searching if one scratched cover can be replaced with mint condition, but covering it with leather is something which I would not do on my own. If I would very need to do it, I would do small holes in leather above this security groove in cover, to ensure that during an accident this leather will rip apart in correct place without any problem.
@@shautohaus for me it just look like a place where leather strip is sewed to be continous because you cant just cut this shape without having any joint. And this is strong joint - i had those on my dainese leather motorcycle suit and they survived intense accident with no wear or tear. Original groove in plastic is horizontal in the middle and goes near audi sign. does producer of this cover provide video how it behaves during detonation? Its not big cost for him.
@@shautohaus I need some way of protecting airbag cover from scratches because I have brand new car and my wheelchair scratches this part intesively and I dont want to have unnecessary resell value drop.. but this leather cover doesnt convince me its safe.
great video! I can't separate the inflation system from the cover (as shown at 11:05), it's really hard, doesn't move one bit and I've tried with plastic tools, screw drivers and hands, nothing works. any tips?
Thanks. I'm not sure why it won't separate. Honestly, that part surprised me with how simple it came apart. Do you have a small plastic tool that's a little curved at the end like I have in the video?
Yes i got lots of them that I used, but it really doesn't even move slightly. my airbag cover is pretty dented everywhere already. Funny thing is everything else was quite easy, like the airbag came off very easily from the steering wheel
@@shadowofflame_ is it dented from trying to pry it apart or other reasons? Do you want to message me on IG with some pictures and I'll take a look. @sh_autohaus
I have not, but I heard from the manufacturer that someone else had found a solution using some washers. I personally just press hard at the top of my air bag and that works. It still works, but just isn't as sensitive as before.
@@shautohaus I was actually able to find the fix, last night I did the wheel and the airbag cover and the airbag wasn't aligning properly, the left side was more pressed in than the right side. And the horn had to be pressed hard to honk. I took the airbag cover and wheel off, inside of the wheel there's 3 black pieces that the spring goes into, these wire misaligned. I swapped over the pieces from the OEM wheel and now the airbag sits perfectly, and the horn is back to working like before, regular sensitivity. The 3 black pieces can be removed, by taking the torx screw out and then pulling the piece itself out.
@@prabhdipkang6535 amazing. I need to find some time to look into this. Unfortunately the Audi is at the body shop getting some repairs at the moment. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
So great to hear man. Hope it wasn't as painful an experience as mine. Still debating taking it back off because it just off center a smidge and it's killing my OCD.
@@shautohaus mine is spot on. Carbon aggressive wheel as yours. Carbon dsg paddles And the airbag cover with black gloss badges. Well for me it was relative easy cause i had your videos. 30 mins for the airbag and probably one hour for the steering wheel It's on the photo of my avatar
@@Dikonou that's so awesome man. So glad to hear that the video is helping others. Took me over 2 hours to do the airbag. Really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. Also just looked at your picture and subscribed. Airbag cover looks perfect 👌🏽
when you say "I should have done here is remove the airbag completly and repack it" at 14:34, what do you mean by remove completely...?? you did remove the pink airbag and pusehd back on to new cover? so idk what you referring to... as I was watching your video, i do not want to put it back together and ended up open back up later. please be little more detail so I can get it done in ONE SHOT .
@@wonjun8042 what I mean is to remove the airbag from the cover and then try to align it and put it back together. Instead of doing that I tried to adjust it while it was still in the airbag cover and that was very difficult to do.
I'm not sure if you can get it already put together. Never seen that honestly. Don't think any company would take on the liability, but could be wrong.
Hey. I finally found the energy to do it today. I believe you could have aligned the little flat pins on the airbag with the notches on the black flanges. I also used zipties to hold the flanges together to slide the top bit with the electronics on the airbag. Then when all the flanges were in I cut the zipties. Anyway these are just tips for the next guys who do this! Thanks a huge lot for the video man! Really helpful!!!❤️
I'm sorry. That's how they sell their product and how we corresponded. If you would like me to look for another way to contact them I can, all you have to do is ask.
Once I've got a really great advice - if you're messing with front air-bad, DO ALWAYS lower the front seat back to the minimum. This way you will land knocked-out on the back seat, instead of knocked-dead in the front :D Do you agree?
Once I've got a really great advice - if you're messing with front air-bag, DO ALWAYS lower the front seat back to the minimum. This way you will land knocked-out on the back seat, instead of knocked-dead in the front seat :D Do you agree?
What you didnt notice, is that when airbag explodes, it make airbag plastic hover break into two pieces, and thats the way how airbag jumps out. On the inside of the cover there is groove in the middle where cover is very thin and in exactly this place it will break during an accident. Now, when your airbag cover is sewed around with strong thread covered with leather, which is not brittle at all compared to thin plastic, now its unknown how airbag will behave, if it will be powerful enough to break this leather in the middle (maybe not and it will inflate into window side instead of your face?), and in case if it will rip, what injuries flying piece of leather can do to your face (maybe hit your eyes or something?). I found this video when searching if one scratched cover can be replaced with mint condition, but covering it with leather is something which I would not do on my own. If I would very need to do it, I would do small holes in leather above this security groove in cover, to ensure that during an accident this leather will rip apart in correct place without any problem.
The leather one actually has a slit on one side to make sure it breaks apart during airbag detonation. You can see it at around minute 00:41
@@shautohaus for me it just look like a place where leather strip is sewed to be continous because you cant just cut this shape without having any joint. And this is strong joint - i had those on my dainese leather motorcycle suit and they survived intense accident with no wear or tear. Original groove in plastic is horizontal in the middle and goes near audi sign. does producer of this cover provide video how it behaves during detonation? Its not big cost for him.
@@shautohaus I need some way of protecting airbag cover from scratches because I have brand new car and my wheelchair scratches this part intesively and I dont want to have unnecessary resell value drop.. but this leather cover doesnt convince me its safe.
great video! I can't separate the inflation system from the cover (as shown at 11:05), it's really hard, doesn't move one bit and I've tried with plastic tools, screw drivers and hands, nothing works. any tips?
Thanks. I'm not sure why it won't separate. Honestly, that part surprised me with how simple it came apart. Do you have a small plastic tool that's a little curved at the end like I have in the video?
Yes i got lots of them that I used, but it really doesn't even move slightly. my airbag cover is pretty dented everywhere already. Funny thing is everything else was quite easy, like the airbag came off very easily from the steering wheel
@@shadowofflame_ is it dented from trying to pry it apart or other reasons? Do you want to message me on IG with some pictures and I'll take a look. @sh_autohaus
@@shautohaus I sent you a message on Insta but I don't think you've seen it yet, might be in Requests
Bro it came out amazing 💪💪
Thanks man. The steering wheel and airbag cover look so good together. Have you done this yourself?
Damn that's looking sick. Great work on that!
Thanks. Love how it turned out.
Great, thank you for the video, it was easier than it looks and the result is awesome ✌🏼
Glad my video helped!
Did you get the horn “sensitivity” fixed? Mine is doing something similar
I have not, but I heard from the manufacturer that someone else had found a solution using some washers. I personally just press hard at the top of my air bag and that works. It still works, but just isn't as sensitive as before.
@@shautohaus I was actually able to find the fix, last night I did the wheel and the airbag cover and the airbag wasn't aligning properly, the left side was more pressed in than the right side. And the horn had to be pressed hard to honk.
I took the airbag cover and wheel off, inside of the wheel there's 3 black pieces that the spring goes into, these wire misaligned. I swapped over the pieces from the OEM wheel and now the airbag sits perfectly, and the horn is back to working like before, regular sensitivity.
The 3 black pieces can be removed, by taking the torx screw out and then pulling the piece itself out.
@@prabhdipkang6535 amazing. I need to find some time to look into this. Unfortunately the Audi is at the body shop getting some repairs at the moment. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Nice video. Helped a lot for my installation!!!
So great to hear man. Hope it wasn't as painful an experience as mine. Still debating taking it back off because it just off center a smidge and it's killing my OCD.
@@shautohaus mine is spot on.
Carbon aggressive wheel as yours.
Carbon dsg paddles
And the airbag cover with black gloss badges.
Well for me it was relative easy cause i had your videos. 30 mins for the airbag and probably one hour for the steering wheel
It's on the photo of my avatar
@@Dikonou that's so awesome man. So glad to hear that the video is helping others. Took me over 2 hours to do the airbag. Really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment.
Also just looked at your picture and subscribed. Airbag cover looks perfect 👌🏽
Awesome video!
Thank you. Appreciate the kind words.
Is there a chance the airbag detonates just from messing around with the cover?
when you say "I should have done here is remove the airbag completly and repack it" at 14:34, what do you mean by remove completely...?? you did remove the pink airbag and pusehd back on to new cover? so idk what you referring to... as I was watching your video, i do not want to put it back together and ended up open back up later. please be little more detail so I can get it done in ONE SHOT .
@@wonjun8042 what I mean is to remove the airbag from the cover and then try to align it and put it back together. Instead of doing that I tried to adjust it while it was still in the airbag cover and that was very difficult to do.
Is there somewhere you can buy the nicer airbag cover with an airbag and everything already installed?
I'm not sure if you can get it already put together. Never seen that honestly. Don't think any company would take on the liability, but could be wrong.
Where did you buy yours from ?
A dealer on Facebook. I put links in the description and I talk about it in the video.
Is this the same to Audi r8?
The steps may be similar, but can't say for sure.
Did you get the new airbag covering from the same company as well.....
@@dwayneterrell3143 yes I did. Ordered at the same time.
@@shautohaus thanks fam.....
Awesome video, but now I dont want to do it since Ive seen how difficult it is hahaha
Thanks man. You got it. A bunch of people have done it based on this video. It's doable. Just go slow and take your time.
Hey. I finally found the energy to do it today. I believe you could have aligned the little flat pins on the airbag with the notches on the black flanges. I also used zipties to hold the flanges together to slide the top bit with the electronics on the airbag. Then when all the flanges were in I cut the zipties.
Anyway these are just tips for the next guys who do this!
Thanks a huge lot for the video man! Really helpful!!!❤️
@@doctorschultz7139 thanks for sharing man. Great tips. Glad you took the plunge and hope it turned out well.
Facebook link? Who has Facebook anymore? Can't get into the information.
I'm sorry. That's how they sell their product and how we corresponded. If you would like me to look for another way to contact them I can, all you have to do is ask.
Once I've got a really great advice - if you're messing with front air-bad, DO ALWAYS lower the front seat back to the minimum. This way you will land knocked-out on the back seat, instead of knocked-dead in the front :D Do you agree?
Great video 👍🏻
Thanks. Really appreciate the comment.
Once I've got a really great advice - if you're messing with front air-bag, DO ALWAYS lower the front seat back to the minimum. This way you will land knocked-out on the back seat, instead of knocked-dead in the front seat :D Do you agree?
Dead either way I guess 🤣🤣🤣