Doel
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yeah.... I'm sorry, anyone putting a gauge cluster over that curtain airbag is a moron. See how fast it pops? It's so fast even the high speed camera can't capture it. Adding gauges on the A pillar is increasing the weight of the thing ten fold, if not more. It's almost impossible to say exactly what's going to happen without crash testing, but it would clearly not operate as intended and there is the very real chance the airbag would launch the cluster at you since it wouldn't open nearly as fast as it's designed to.Some good views of the curtain airbag deploying here.
They deploy at 200 mph, just the bag itself can bruise the crap out of you, now imagine plastic and metal hitting you in the face. You're talking severe damage or even death, not just a minor scrape.
If you want to make your Stinger a death trap in a 20 mph collision, that's up to you, just please don't let anyone else ever drive your car.
If you really want to use this gauge cluster, disconnect that airbag and just live with the airbag light on the dash.