Airbag crisis Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Airbag crisis Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Honda Motor Co. explained it will replace air bags all over the country in case users claim, despite the fact that it is at present 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 concerned about their safety was unveiled in documents submitted recently by U.S. safety regulators. However Honda doesn't intend to inform users outside the recall regions.

Honda will also give loaner cars “as appropriate,” the automaker said in a Nov. 6 reaction to regulators’ questions on the recalled airbags, which are made by the Takata Corporation. The Japanese automaker before declared that it was limiting some recalls to cars sold or ever registered in areas of “high absolute humidity,” due to the fact moisture is believed to contribute in the defect.

With the confirmation in the report, there are at present five deaths connected with the faulty airbags. As shown by The New York Times, a pregnant woman in Malaysia was killed on July 27 in a 2003 Honda City the time she blasted into another vehicle, and the inflator ruptured. This was the first reported case outside of the US.

Behind the mess is carmakers' reluctance to agree to costly repairs while they still puzzle over how can a number of bags explode as well as the U.S. safety regulators' incapability to press in them to full-scale recalls.