Airbag incident Honda will replace airbags across the country

Airbag incident Honda will replace airbags across the country

Honda Motor Co. said it will replace air bags all over the country any time users report, even if it is at the moment limiting its latest recall of cars with Takata air bags to over 2.8 million vehicles sold or registered in high-humidity states. The changing program for owners serious about their safety was revealed in documents published recently by U.S. safety regulators. On the other hand Honda doesn't expect to notify consumers outside the recall locations.

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

With the verification on this report, there are now five deaths associated 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 when she blasted into another car, and the inflator ruptured. This became the first announced case outside of the US.

Behind the confusion is carmakers' reluctance to agree to costly repairs while they still puzzle over what makes some bags explode along with the U.S. safety regulators' inability to come in contact them into full-scale recalls.