Airbag crisis Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Airbag crisis Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Honda Motor Co. explained it will replace air bags nationally if users complain, even though it is at the moment limiting its latest recall of vehicles with Takata air bags to around 2.8 million cars sold or registered in high-humidity states. The substitution program for owners serious about their safety was mentioned in documents published recently by U.S. safety regulators. Even so Honda doesn't plan to let know customers outside the recall regions.

Honda will even give loaner cars “as appropriate,” the automaker noted in a Nov. 6 consequence of regulators’ questions on the recalled airbags, which are produced by the Takata Corporation. The Japanese automaker before said that it was limiting specific recalls to cars sold or ever registered in locations with “high absolute humidity,” because moisture is believed to play a role in the defect.

With the verification on this report, there are at present five deaths associated with the faulty airbags. According to The New York Times, a pregnant woman in Malaysia was killed on July 27 in a 2003 Honda City while she blasted into another car, and the inflator ruptured. Such was the first publicized case outside of the US.

Behind the confusion is carmakers' reluctance to agree to costly repairs while they still puzzle over why are some bags explode along with the U.S. safety regulators' inability to nudge them towards full-scale recalls.