Airbag Threat: U.S. Warns Some Honda Owners to Curb Their Cars
The Takata Corp. airbag inflators in certain older Honda and Acura vehicles in the U.S. have as much as a 50:50 chance of exploding in a crash and shouldn’t be driven until they are fixed, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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The Takata Corp. airbag inflators in certain older Honda and Acura vehicles in the U.S. have as much as a 50:50 chance of exploding in a crash and shouldn’t be driven until they are fixed, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
NHTSA says the risk of a misfire that could kill or injure the vehicles’ occupants is “grave” for these already-recalled models:
- 2001-2002 Honda Civic and Accord cars
- 2002 model Honda CR-V crossover and Odyssey minivans
- 2002-2003 Acura TL luxury sedans
- 2003 Acura CL TK luxury coupes and Honda Pilot SUV
NHTSA says its estimate of the extraordinarily high failure rates comes from lab tests of inflators removed from scrapped models of the same vintage. The risk is highest for vehicles that have spent most of their time in hot and humid climates.
To date Honda and 16 other carmakers have issued recalls to replace Takata inflators in roughly 100 million vehicles worldwide.
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