Airbag problems Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Airbag problems Honda will replace airbags nationwide

Honda Motor Co. said it will replace air bags across the country if consumers claim, even if it is at present limiting its latest recall of cars with Takata air bags to around 2.8 million cars sold or registered in high-humidity states. The substitution program for owners worried about their safety was showed in documents published recently by U.S. safety regulators. Even so Honda doesn't intend to let know users outside the recall regions.

Honda may also feature loaner cars “as appropriate,” the automaker stated in a Nov. 6 response to regulators’ questions on the recalled airbags, which are made by the Takata Corporation. The Japanese automaker recently said that it was limiting specific recalls to cars sold or ever registered in regions of “high absolute humidity,” since moisture is believed to contribute in the defect.

With the approval of the report, there are now five deaths related to the faulty airbags. According to The New York Times, a pregnant woman in Malaysia was killed on July 27 in a 2003 Honda City while she went down into another car, and the inflator ruptured. This was the first reported case outside of the US.

Behind the misunderstandings is carmakers' reluctance to attempt to costly repairs while they still puzzle over how can some bags explode along with the U.S. safety regulators' incapability to press in them into full-scale recalls.