Airbag problems Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Airbag problems Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Honda Motor Co. explained it will replace air bags all over the country in case users complain, despite the fact that it is currently limiting its newest recall of vehicles with Takata air bags to over 2.8 million cars sold or registered in high-humidity states. The substitution program for owners thinking about their safety was revealed in documents submitted recently by U.S. safety regulators. But Honda doesn't plan to notify consumers outside the recall places.

Honda will in addition provide loaner cars “as acceptable,” the automaker stated in a Nov. 6 response to regulators’ questions on the recalled airbags, which are produced by the Takata Corporation. The Japanese automaker previously showed it was limiting specific recalls to cars sold or ever registered in regions of “high absolute humidity,” due to the fact moisture is thought to contribute in the defect.

With the affirmation in the report, there are at the moment five deaths connected with the faulty airbags. As outlined by The New York Times, a pregnant woman in Malaysia was killed on July 27 in a 2003 Honda City at the time she hit into another car, and the inflator ruptured. Such was the first publicized case outside of the US.

Behind the frustration is carmakers' reluctance to commit to costly repairs while they still puzzle over what makes a number of bags explode and the U.S. safety regulators' powerlessness to nudge them to full-scale recalls.