Takata Airbags Claim Another Life After Owner Ignores FIFTEEN Recall Letters

The problem with the Takata nightmare was that replacement parts simply were not available when customers came in and many got tired of waiting. Dealers were bird-dogging and some people are adamant that they would not comply to teach us a lesson. #morons

It's more convenient to blame the victim.

Someone who refuses to comply isn't a victim.

The first comment here, is shockingly very credible and insightful.

Drivers and dealers need to take this more seriously. I'm not surprised that this happens though with such older cars, that are of the appliance variety being handled so lackadaisically.

Reminds me of how from 1992 into 1993-95, passenger airbags started becoming standard or optional fare on family cars/vans with a more middle class price tag and many kids were ll of a sudden dying in the front seat of new cars via love taps below 10 mph. This didn't happen with the few luxury cars that had them during 1988 and 1991.

When an infant was decapitated and a Towson power lawyer lost his 7yr old daughter as well, in 1996 NHTSA demanded depowered airbags by 1998 and on/off switches for 2 seaters. Smart seats or passenger sensory gradually followed from late 1990s through mid-2000s.

However in the 2000s, these used mid-90s cars with huge powerful airbags originally designed in 80s/early 90s to protect an unbelted, 200 pound 6 ft male passenger, were being bought by naive or obtuse, unsuspecting people as third hand cars or older.

Child death rate or severe injuries increased again, except this time it got no media coverage like in the 90s, since it was no longer Gen Y Allies or Tommys being killed in mommy's new Town & Country, but lower class children, often immigrants or Appalachia types in a rusty old Voyager. Ditto for gray market cars sent to the developing world, in hyper humid climates.

I've personally known of various Africans driving old 90s and early 2000s grey market cars from USA, dying as a result of an inability to service a recall. Whether Takata or not realizing you DON'T fucking put little kids in front of early SRS airbags. SMH

It's why I warn those locals, to not naively buy anything they cannot fix locally and buy used local spec cars instead of imported USDM.

Instead, they are forced to relive the same horrors that middle to upper middle class American families experienced, 20 to 25 years ago or get shrapnel finishing them up, because they assume anything with a Honda badge = 100% golden.