Airbag incident Honda will replace airbags all over the country

Airbag incident Honda will replace airbags all over the country

Honda Motor Co. said it will replace air bags nationally when customers report, despite the fact that it is at the moment limiting its newest recall of cars with Takata air bags to about 2.8 million vehicles sold or registered in high-humidity states. The changing program for owners worried about their safety was mentioned in documents posted recently by U.S. safety regulators. On the other hand Honda doesn't decide to notify users outside the recall locations.

Honda may also feature loaner cars “as proper,” the automaker noted in a Nov. 6 response to regulators’ questions on the recalled airbags, which are created by the Takata Corporation. The Japanese automaker recently revealed that it was limiting specific recalls to cars sold or ever registered in areas of “high absolute humidity,” mainly because moisture is believed to be the cause in the defect.

With the verification on this report, there are currently five deaths linked to the faulty airbags. As outlined by The New York Times, a pregnant woman in Malaysia was dead on July 27 in a 2003 Honda City while she blasted into another vehicle, and the inflator ruptured. Such was the first reported case outside of the US.

Behind the frustration is carmakers' reluctance to decide on costly repairs while they still puzzle over what might make a number of bags explode as well as the U.S. safety regulators' inability to press in them towards full-scale recalls.