Airbag crisis Honda will replace airbags across the country

Airbag crisis Honda will replace airbags across the country

Honda Motor Co. explained it will replace air bags nationally in case users make a complaint, although it is at present limiting its newest recall of cars with Takata air bags to around 2.8 million vehicles sold or registered in high-humidity states. The substitution program for owners thinking about their safety was revealed in documents published recently by U.S. safety regulators. However Honda doesn't expect to tell users outside the recall places.

Honda may also feature loaner cars “as acceptable,” the automaker noted in a Nov. 6 response to regulators’ questions on the recalled airbags, which are manufactured by the Takata Corporation. The Japanese automaker recently showed it was limiting certain recalls to cars sold or ever registered in regions of “high absolute humidity,” because moisture is believed to are likely involved in the defect.

With the verification in the report, there are currently five deaths connected 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 hit into another vehicle, and the inflator ruptured. This became the first announced case outside of the US.

Behind the misunderstandings is carmakers' reluctance to commit to costly repairs while they still puzzle over what might make a number of bags explode along with the U.S. safety regulators' failure to come in contact them towards full-scale recalls.