Honda Deadly Airbags Replacement Program

Honda Atlas has started the new campaign about the importance of the airbags and they asked the owners of selected Honda cars for the replacement of the airbags. The owners of the cars should note about the eligible Honda cars:
• Honda Civic 2006-2012
• Honda C-RV 2008-2011
• Honda Accord 2004-2012
The Honda company urged the owners of these models of the Honda cars to bring their vehicles to Honda service center and they can get inspected their airbags. If these vehicles have the Takata airbags, then company will replace these airbags freely. The owners of these cars should visit the website of Honda Pakistan to see if their car has faulty airbag inflators.

The faulty airbag can be lethal and dangerous and if the airbag is defected and faulty, then the airbag has to deploy during any collision and the body of airbag inflator explode in tiny bits of metal fragments because of massive pressure in it. This explosion will cause metal bits and fragments to take out of body and it can injure occupant inside the car on the respective seat.
Takata Airbags in Early Models
The faulty airbag of Takata and its reputation is the main cause of starting of this campaign. During an incident in California in 2014, a woman died due to Takata airbag fitted in Honda Accord 2005 model. The collision of the car was happened at the low speed but this car has faulty airbags and hot metal and plastic shrapnel shot out of the car and it killed the woman. She received severe burns, bruises and there are abrasions on her body. With this incident, the fall of Takata airbag was started and the legal battles were started and they were bankrupted in June 2017.
There are some other car manufacturing companies, which used Takata airbags in which Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Ford and Chrysler are added in this list.