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SALT LAKE CITY — Over the previous 10 years, auto producers have recalled over 67 million Takata airbags due to their potential to blow up if deployed in a collision and shoot out sharp metallic fragments.
The faulty airbags have been linked to 27 deaths within the U.S. to this point and injured greater than 400 drivers and passengers. And as horrible as that’s, consultants say these airbags grow to be much more prone to explode the longer they’re allowed to take a seat in our vehicles unfixed.
This previous week, Nissan issued a “don’t drive” order for 84,000 older vehicles with unfixed Takata airbags. Toyota, Ford, BMW, Mazda and Honda all have issued related warnings that their vehicles can’t be safely pushed till the airbags are changed.
“Park the automobile,” stated Patrick Olsen, editor-in-chief at Carfax, of the “don’t drive” warnings. “‘(Automakers) will ship a tow truck for you. (They will) take it, get it fastened and convey it again to you.'”
Olsen stated long-term publicity of the airbag’s propellant to excessive warmth and humidity solely will increase the chances the airbag will explode.
“I do know Salt Lake Metropolis – loads of warmth. And so, each summer time it is accruing an increasing number of hassle in that airbag,” he stated.
In response to numbers Carfax shared with the KSL Investigators, 70,000 vehicles and vans on Utah roads proper now have unfixed Takata airbags. Sixty-two thousand of these are based mostly within the Salt Lake space.
Park the automobile. (Automakers will) ship a tow truck for you. (They will) take it, get it fastened and convey it again to you.
–Patrick Olsen, editor-in-chief at Carfax
Olsen says provide chain points that plagued airbags are not there.
“There was completely a scarcity of alternative recollects again in 2014 when the recollects began and admittedly lasted for a number of years,” Olsen stated. “Now, although, there isn’t a scarcity of alternative airbags.”
In the event you’re not sure when you have a recalled airbag in your automobile, it is easy to verify. Search your automobile’s VIN on Carfax’s web site or the web site for the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration. You will have the reply in seconds.
Olsen stated an airbag usually will solely take a few hours to interchange at completely no price to you. Schedule an appointment forward with the producer’s dealership, so that you may be certain there’s an airbag readily available to your mannequin. Even in case you’re not the automobile’s authentic proprietor, they have to restore it.
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