Hi guys,  I have an Octavia, but my wife has a Ford KA . The KA is a  2000 Reg basic model and is in excellent condition having done only 10,000   miles.  Problem is it has only one airbag on drivers side. Can anyone tell me is it possible to retro fit an airbag on the passenger side?

I won't be doing this myself, it will got to the Ford garage. Also,  any idea of cost for bag and labour ?

I dont believe the KA of that vintage ever had a passenger airbag, so no a retrofit would not be possible. Even if it were the cost would exceed the value of the car by some considerable margin.

I dont believe the KA of that vintage ever had a passenger airbag, so no a retrofit would not be possible. Even if it were the cost would exceed the value of the car by some considerable margin.

Plus 1

The first ka's were somewhat limited on spec and built to a budget.

Most of them that i know of seen to be rotting away at the moment. 2 of which have recently gone off the road with 80k on the clock.

Theyre only worth a few hundred quid so its not really viable to start doing things like that, if it was possible IMO.

Just tape a whoopee cushion to the dash

Just tape a whoopee cushion to the dash

Or pay for the passenger to have breast implants

No such a good idea if the passenger is a bloke though.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/03/bulgarian_airbags/

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Tag/bulgarian%20airbags

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/03/bulgarian_airbags/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Tag/bulgarian%20airbags

Fancy havin an article like that with no images.

Terrible publishing .

A passenger airbag was a factory fit cost option on all MkI KA models since launch in 1996.

 

It is likely there are plenty of scrapped versions out there from which you could take all of the components, however I assume the impact sensors used to detect the severity of an impact and from which direction it has come from will also be required making this retrofit a real headache.

 

I would imagine Ford would decline the work too considering the model is now no longer produced.

 

At 14 years old you are living on borrowed time. The KA is renowned for corrosion, especially along the sills doors and fuel cap.

 

Time to chop it in for a more safer model I think...

Hi Guys,  Thanks for all the advice and of course you are quite correct. Ford also confirms it a no no so that settles it.  However silver 1011 its certainly not for the chop as its only done 10,000 miles, has always been garaged and I have always maintained it myself, so it is still in showroom condition. Waxoiled underneath and everywhere and absolutely no rust on this one.  Maybe in a few years it will be the last one around.   Before this wifey had an original Mini for 28 years and that did have quite a bit of rust at the end.  Cheers !

My first brand new car was a 1998 Ford Ka3 in Autumn Green with the OEM boot spoiler!



Towed with it too



Sold it after three years as it started (only very slightly) to rust on the upright shut line between the door and the rear quarter panel, for a Puma which then also started to bubble along the tops of the rear wheelarches...

...four wheels and a board, call it a Ford!

 
 

Black and white show plates ? or ex isle of man 

It was when I was in my youth accompanied by the typical care free attitude. It was the standard plate on the old style black and silver metal-pressed plates. R167 SWR.

 

I was going for Ford's Steve McQueen TV advert 'look'...

 

 

As expected after numerous pulls by the local plod I aquired a private plate in a ABC 12 configuration and had some Guernsey plates made up with the GBG logo on...

 

 

It looked ace but remained illegal! No attention from the Police though

Edited 26 November, 201411 yr by silver1011

It was when I was in my youth accompanied by the typical care free attitude. It was the standard plate on the old style black and silver metal-pressed plates. R167 SWR.

 

I was going for Ford's Steve McQueen TV advert 'look'...

 

 

The trouble with that is that a Puma isn't a car that McQueen would drive; it's a car that he'd buy as a present for his mistress's hair stylist!

Coming from someone driving a 110bhp diesel, yawn.

 

I know which car is more fun to drive

My first brand new car was a 1998 Ford Ka3 in Autumn Green with the OEM boot spoiler!

Towed with it too

 

 

 

Blimey, dunno how you never got pulled for that. In fact, I guess you must've made the tow hitch up yourself, did you?

Blimey, dunno how you never got pulled for that. In fact, I guess you must've made the tow hitch up yourself, did you?

I didnt think the ka had any declared towing weights, brakes or unbraked. So i dno how he did that haha.

Nope, no type approval for the Ford Ka so not allowed to tow anything with it.

The Ka shared it's floorplan with the Fiesta so the towbar bolted straight on.

 

No type approval, but then this was over 16 years ago and I was 18 at the time

 

The trusty 1.3 Endura pushrod engine was a little beauty.

The Ka shared it's floorplan with the Fiesta so the towbar bolted straight on.

No type approval, but then this was over 16 years ago and I was 18 at the time

The trusty 1.3 Endura pushrod engine was a little beauty.

Haa fair shout.

It didnt struggle then?

I've always found the ka very low geared. So it probably wasnt too bad actually aha.

The Ka shared it's floorplan with the Fiesta so the towbar bolted straight on.

 

No type approval, but then this was over 16 years ago and I was 18 at the time

 

The trusty 1.3 Kent pushrod engine was a little beauty.

Fixed that for you.

Endura-E  1995-2002   'Final redesign of the Kent'.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Kent_engine

Edited 2 December, 201411 yr by goneoffSKi

Endura-E 1995-2002 'Final redesign of the Kent'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Kent_engine

Knew it was an old engine used in those.

Didnt realise it was 1959 though. Christ.

Straight out of a ford Anglia haha.

On 01/12/2014 at 19:42, silver1011 said:

The Ka shared it's floorplan with the Fiesta so the towbar bolted straight on.

 

No type approval, but then this was over 16 years ago and I was 18 at the time

 

The trusty 1.3 Endura pushrod engine was a little beauty.

I would like to get a Ka and put a towbar on and tow my small trailer with it but i was more worried about getting pulled over by the police so i got myself a Fiesta van instead

Edited 26 January, 20179 yr by Paddyford1991

I have great respect for the Police however I'm pretty sure they aren't going to be that clued up on whether the Ford Ka was ever type approved to tow or not