? In what year did the doors get higher up the shoulder?

[KevinH1990]

htthttps://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/fmvss/214_Side_Impact_final_Aug_30_2007.pdfp://

It appears that NHTSA published an updated rule on side impact in August 2007. The rule gave manufacturers several years to implement the standard. I expect that most of the manufacturers incorporated the rule changes during the next design cycle of their vehicles and that the changes occurred over a 5 or 6-year period.

I haven't read the rule closely, but I doubt it dictates the height of doors. I also haven't ridden in a convertible that was newer than my 986 and I cannot say for sure that the door heights have changed. (I'm willing to take your word for it.) I expect that if the changes happened it was part of the effort to meet the new test standards contained in the rule.

My daughter was an EMT and she responded to several "T-bone" wrecks. At the time, she was an EMT I had a 96 Infiniti G20 that did not have side-impact airbags. I was treated to several stories about passengers in side impact wrecks who had airbags and walked away from the accident with minor injuries. She also told me about a high school student who was hit in a car without airbags who broke her jaw and lost most of her teeth. I eventually sold my G20 (which had 268,000 miles on it at the time) and bought a 2005 Mercedes C230 with side impact airbags and overall more substantial construction. I didn't want have my daughter tell me "I told you so" if I was ever in a side impact accident and lost all of my teeth.

[DreamSign]

Originally Posted by KevinH1990

htthttps://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/fmvss/214_Side_Impact_final_Aug_30_2007.pdfp://

It appears that NHTSA published an updated rule on side impact in August 2007. The rule gave manufacturers several years to implement the standard. I expect that most of the manufacturers incorporated the rule changes during the next design cycle of their vehicles and that the changes occurred over a 5 or 6-year period.

I haven't read the rule closely, but I doubt it dictates the height of doors. I also haven't ridden in a convertible that was newer than my 986 and I cannot say for sure that the door heights have changed. (I'm willing to take your word for it.) I expect that if the changes happened it was part of the effort to meet the new test standards contained in the rule.

My daughter was an EMT and she responded to several "T-bone" wrecks. At the time, she was an EMT I had a 96 Infiniti G20 that did not have side-impact airbags. I was treated to several stories about passengers in side impact wrecks who had airbags and walked away from the accident with minor injuries. She also told me about a high school student who was hit in a car without airbags who broke her jaw and lost most of her teeth. I eventually sold my G20 (which had 268,000 miles on it at the time) and bought a 2005 Mercedes C230 with side impact airbags and overall more substantial construction. I didn't want have my daughter tell me "I told you so" if I was ever in a side impact accident and lost all of my teeth.

I'm kinda looking at the 2007-2009 years right now, but that could change. These have lots of side airbags:

Realizing that crash protection is even more critical for occupants in an open-top car than in a steel-roof one, Porsche's engineers equipped all Porsche Boxster roadsters with three-point inertia-reel seat belts with belt-latch tensioners and belt-force limiters as well as six airbags.

In addition to two-stage frontal airbags, the Porsche Boxster and Boxster S feature the Porsche Side Impact Protection (POSIP) system with torso-protecting thorax side-impact airbags mounted in the outer edges of the seatbacks and special head-protecting side-impact airbags which deploy from the doors' windowsills.

The frontal airbags benefit from the use of an organic-based propellant which reduces their needed storage space and their weight, while also easing their recyclability.

To protect small children, the passenger seat sensors automatically defeat the passenger front airbags if the sensors detect a lightweight occupant.

[Starter986]

Originally Posted by DreamSign

I'm kinda looking at the 2007-2009 years right now, but that could change. These have lots of side airbags:

Realizing that crash protection is even more critical for occupants in an open-top car than in a steel-roof one, Porsche's engineers equipped all Porsche Boxster roadsters with three-point inertia-reel seat belts with belt-latch tensioners and belt-force limiters as well as six airbags.

In addition to two-stage frontal airbags, the Porsche Boxster and Boxster S feature the Porsche Side Impact Protection (POSIP) system with torso-protecting thorax side-impact airbags mounted in the outer edges of the seatbacks and special head-protecting side-impact airbags which deploy from the doors' windowsills.

The frontal airbags benefit from the use of an organic-based propellant which reduces their needed storage space and their weight, while also easing their recyclability.

To protect small children, the passenger seat sensors automatically defeat the passenger front airbags if the sensors detect a lightweight occupant.

Source? My 98 has 4 bags.

From where did you cut and paste your narrative?

[DreamSign]

Originally Posted by Starter986

Source? My 98 has 4 bags.

From where did you cut and paste your narrative?

here is where I found it, it was quoting a 2008:
https://www.netcarshow.com/porsche/2008-boxster/

[ike84]

Originally Posted by DreamSign

here is where I found it, it was quoting a 2008:
https://www.netcarshow.com/porsche/2008-boxster/

Nothing in that description is accurate for a 986.

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[DreamSign]

Originally Posted by ike84

Nothing in that description is accurate for a 986.

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That is correct, that is for a 2008 Boxster- I was looking at getting a newer Boxster, forgot this is a 986 only forum