OK so here's the update:

Jim Ellis service guy calls me and says there was in fact a crash code in the computer, meaning there was in fact an impact. I asked if he saw any physical damage to that side of the car. He said he saw a patched up area on the driver door. OK, I accept that. The only concern I have with that is that the damage on the door he is reffering to happened years ago. I think about 3. So I asked is there ANY other damage besides that. The answer was no.

So there are two possible scenarios:

1) The air bag took 3 years to deploy. As much as I would love for this to be the case, just because it would be so funny to think that a safety measure deployed at 200mph and burned the fuck out of my arm... 3 years later, I know this is not the case because I have a VAG-com and have not seen any crash codes prior to the incident on saturday. Now that I think about it, I wish I had ran a vag on it afterwards before taking it in. But I digress.

2) Something ELSE hit my car and deployed the airbags. However this concerns me even more. There is no evidence of anything else hitting the side of my car, I didn't see anything, nor did I feel anything, and the service guys can't find anything. So something so insignificant hit my car, and BAM my arm is nearly taken off by the airbags. That sucks. Now I'm scared to ride anywhere near trucks hawling anything. God forbid a pebble falls out and hits my bumper, POOF I have a pillow... too bad going to sleep cruising at 90 mph down the highway is a bad idea.

I'm not amused.

So now I'm waiting for the dealer to call VW and tell them what they told me and then VW to call me and discuss what will be done.

ps - I'm on spring break.