Remember the start of Fight Club when the main character talks about the auto industry only initating a recall when the recall is cheaper than a class action lawsuit? Pepperage Farm remembers.
I'm certain that Takata changed their formula for the accelerant (aka: chemical explosive) but now there have been enough injuries from these life saving features to cross an arbitrary threshold that "We have to do something!". Litigation (when you're still alive to sue), Judges (who don't know how anything works), fear (you must stop driving it or it could KILL you!), dealers (why won't they buy our overpriced junk?), service departments (now that you're here, did you know your blinker fluid needs replacement? It's ONLY $1500 to fix it), regulations (if airbags aren't installed, you can't sell your vehicles here), the MSM (X% of ALL of this brand of car has airbags made by THIS company)...AD @#$ing ASTRA! You could also just unplug the airbag and drive your car (crumple zones, seat belts, etc.) Life IS risk after all. Something something freedom vs. security and who might deserve what.
I might have known that at one time in the past, but even if I'd researched it, ( or followed every link ) there's decreasing odds of my retaining the info. MS is diabolical like that. Thanks for the reply.
It's not just Chrysler, et. al, that's getting this. Got pinged by the Ford dealership yesterday that our 2012 Fusion needs to come in to get the airbag replaced.
Of course, we traded that car in with that exact same Ford dealership in 2020, but at least they're looking out for us.
I have to question if airbags really do anything? When I was in my accident, the airbags went off well AFTER the impact and not a single one of them touched me anywhere. They were like an afterthought. I had actually started to wonder about them when they went off.
Had the opposite issue when my airbags went off in the Focus. I was going maybe 10 miles an hour, got hit by something going about 20 in the side. Blew steering wheel, driver's curtain, and driver side back seat curtain. I think it was the curtain that separated my shoulder, not the impact.
Remember the start of Fight Club when the main character talks about the auto industry only initating a recall when the recall is cheaper than a class action lawsuit? Pepperage Farm remembers.
I'm certain that Takata changed their formula for the accelerant (aka: chemical explosive) but now there have been enough injuries from these life saving features to cross an arbitrary threshold that "We have to do something!". Litigation (when you're still alive to sue), Judges (who don't know how anything works), fear (you must stop driving it or it could KILL you!), dealers (why won't they buy our overpriced junk?), service departments (now that you're here, did you know your blinker fluid needs replacement? It's ONLY $1500 to fix it), regulations (if airbags aren't installed, you can't sell your vehicles here), the MSM (X% of ALL of this brand of car has airbags made by THIS company)...AD @#$ing ASTRA! You could also just unplug the airbag and drive your car (crumple zones, seat belts, etc.) Life IS risk after all. Something something freedom vs. security and who might deserve what.
Takata went bankrupt in 2017, sold off assets and set up a ‘fund’ to pay claims if filed by 2021.
That's probably why there's not much follow up. There's no actual company to follow up from.
I might have known that at one time in the past, but even if I'd researched it, ( or followed every link ) there's decreasing odds of my retaining the info. MS is diabolical like that. Thanks for the reply.
Checked my old truck.... no recall.
Yet
It's not just Chrysler, et. al, that's getting this. Got pinged by the Ford dealership yesterday that our 2012 Fusion needs to come in to get the airbag replaced.
Of course, we traded that car in with that exact same Ford dealership in 2020, but at least they're looking out for us.
I have to question if airbags really do anything? When I was in my accident, the airbags went off well AFTER the impact and not a single one of them touched me anywhere. They were like an afterthought. I had actually started to wonder about them when they went off.
Had the opposite issue when my airbags went off in the Focus. I was going maybe 10 miles an hour, got hit by something going about 20 in the side. Blew steering wheel, driver's curtain, and driver side back seat curtain. I think it was the curtain that separated my shoulder, not the impact.
Interesting.