Airbag defect spurs recall of 4.7 million vehicles - The Washington Post

The airbags are made by Takata and are in place in some Toyota, Honda, Mazda, BMW, Nissan and General Motors models. NHTSA said it was particularly urgent for vehicles owners in Florida, Puerto Rico, Guam, Saipan, American Samoa, Virgin Islands and Hawaii to take immediate action.

Humidity? Salty Mist? Rum drinks?

Humidity.

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Humility.

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Good thing I didn't get the Massive option

on the evening news it said the airbags could explode and throw metal parts into the driver's head. What exactly is happening and what metal parts are being flung around?

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Good reason to own a car that was made before the swine in DC started requiring that all new cars have explosives aimed at the faces of the people in them.

Eh, I'll still prefer to drive a car with air bags...from what I've read it's more of a defect with the manufacturing process where a chemical was left out in the air and shouldn't ha e been.


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Sounds like news embellishment. I thought he risk was airbag deployment without warning, which is bad enough. "Metal parts" flying around sounds like some newscasters dim understanding of how an airbag works or is built.

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Didn't look like news embellishment to me. They had pictures of people with pieces of metal embedded in their heads. One in a person's eye, blinding them.

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Holy shlt!

More research time for me EDIT- inflator mechanisms the are saying?

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It's been documented, couple people have been killed by the metal shards hitting veins. All of the above questions answered:

http://jalopnik.com/your-guide-to-the-explosive-airbag-recall-that-effects-1634598717


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If one owns one of the recall cars. Disable the airbag circuit until they fix it. They are unlikely to have enough replacement bags on hand to do them very quickly for all.

A minor accident could fire the bags at you. Are all the cars with the problematic airbags listed anywhere?

They are listed at the bottom of the linked article.

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Is this a problem with the bombs exploding when the circuit fires them, or the explosive being unstable and self-initiating? If it's the latter, disconnecting the circuit won't help. (Carefully) removing the bags would.

Airbags are kind of a dumb idea. I've been saying this for years.

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