Airbag incident Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Airbag incident Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Honda Motor Co. stated it will replace air bags nationwide if users make a complaint, although it is at this time limiting its newest recall of cars with Takata air bags to over 2.8 million vehicles sold or registered in high-humidity states. The replacement program for owners concerned about their safety was revealed in documents posted recently by U.S. safety regulators. But Honda doesn't decide to notify customers outside the recall locations.

Honda will in addition give loaner cars “as acceptable,” the automaker noted in a Nov. 6 reaction to regulators’ questions on the recalled airbags, which are created by the Takata Corporation. The Japanese automaker before said that it was limiting specific recalls to cars sold or ever registered in regions of “high absolute humidity,” since moisture is believed to are likely involved in the defect.

With the approval in the report, there are now five deaths related to the faulty airbags. As shown by The New York Times, a pregnant woman in Malaysia was dead on July 27 in a 2003 Honda City when she blasted into another vehicle, and the inflator ruptured. It was the first declared case outside of the US.

Behind the misunderstandings is carmakers' reluctance to decide on costly repairs while they still puzzle over what might make numerous bags explode along with the U.S. safety regulators' incapability to push them to full-scale recalls.