Airbag problems Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Airbag problems Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Honda Motor Co. stated it will replace air bags across the country in case users claim, even if it is at this time limiting its newest recall of vehicles with Takata air bags to over 2.8 million vehicles sold or registered in high-humidity states. The substitution program for owners concerned about their safety was mentioned in documents posted recently by U.S. safety regulators. However Honda doesn't decide to inform consumers outside the recall locations.

Honda will in addition provide loaner cars “as suitable,” the automaker said in a Nov. 6 answer to regulators’ questions on the recalled airbags, which are made by the Takata Corporation. The Japanese automaker before said that it was limiting certain recalls to cars sold or ever registered in locations with “high absolute humidity,” due to the fact moisture is thought to play a role in the defect.

With the confirmation of the report, there are at present five deaths linked 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 while she blasted into another vehicle, and the inflator ruptured. This was the first declared case outside of the US.

Behind the misunderstandings is carmakers' reluctance to agree to costly repairs while they still puzzle over what makes some bags explode and the U.S. safety regulators' powerlessness to press in them for full-scale recalls.