Mexican Media Brands
300,000 Dangerous Honda Airbag Inflators Not Yet Fixed
About 300,000 U.S. owners of older-model Honda and Acura cars have not yet responded to recalls urging them to replace Takata Corp. airbag inflators that have as much as a 50% chance of exploding in a crash.
#Acura #regulations
Share
About 300,000 U.S. owners of older-model Honda and Acura cars have not yet responded to recalls urging them to replace Takata Corp. airbag inflators that have as much as a 50% chance of exploding in a crash.
Regulators have ordered more than a dozen carmakers to recall about 69 million vehicles in the American market. In June they identified 313,000 units made by Honda with especially high chances of misfiring and injuring or killing a vehicle's occupants. Only 13,000 of those cars have been fixed to date, the Associated Press reports.
Honda has been using multiple channels, including personal visits to owners’ homes, to notify customers of the danger. But most of the targeted cars have been sold two or three times, making it more difficult to track down current owners.
AP notes that at least one U.S. senator is urging Honda to do more. Safety officials have suggested one effective way to round up unrepaired recall vehicles would be to link their annual registration renewals to a nationwide recall database. But so far little has been done to implement such a plan.
RELATED CONTENT
-
On the Genesis GV80, Acura MDX, BMW iDrive and more
From Genesis to Lamborghini, from Bosch to Acura: new automotive developments.
-
Inside the Honda Performance Manufacturing Center
They don’t make many Acura NSX supercars. But those that they do are built with meticulous care and attention.
-
2015 NAIAS Seen (or Scene)
Patrick Wong, photographer and designer, braved the snow and single-digit temperatures that were outside of Detroit’s Cobo Center and found several vehicles of visual interest. . . . FORD GT This is a car that was rumored to be coming, yet which was kept undercover exceedingly well so that when it was revealed, the gasps in Joe Louis Arena caused a momentary lack of oxygen in the room: ACURA NSX Acura’s stand was directly across from Ford’s. And Acura revealed the production version of the NSX. Some argued that Acura should have challenged Ford to a race through the slippery streets of downtown Detroit. It would have probably won, because this hybrid as all-wheel-drive: ALFA ROMEO 4C SPIDER The question is whether this is a study in Italian sexiness or lightweight. This car features a body of SMC, a carbon-fiber monocoque, aluminum chassis and engine mounting components, and an all-aluminum, 237-hp turbocharged engine. And yes, you can remove the carbon-fiber roof: VOLKSWAGEN CROSS COUPE GTE American drivers are snapping up crossover vehicles of all size with vigor of late. And so Volkswagen has wisely decided that because it has that giant manufacturing plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that’s making Passats that are sedans, not crossovers, it needs to do something. And that something is the Cross Coupe GTE, a seven-passenger crossover that will go into production near the end of 2016. Oh, and it is a hybrid.