Important warning for owners of certain 2001-03 Honda and Acura vehicles: U.S. officials recommend them to stop driving their cars, because new data show the vehicles’ Takata airbag inflators have as much as a 50 percent chance of exploding in a crash.
The warning applies more exactly to the 2001-02 Honda Civic and Accord, the 2002-03 Acura TL, 2002 Honda CR-V and Odyssey, 2003 Acura CL and 2003 Honda Pilot that were recalled from 2008-11 for Takata inflators that have not yet been repaired. The warning should be seriously taken into account especially because of the fact that eight of the ten car crash deaths in the U.S. caused by Takata inflators explosions, occurred in the Honda and Acura vehicles subject to the warning.
The airbag inflators in this particular group of vehicles pose a grave danger to drivers and passengers. Inflator ruptures are “far more likely” to happen in vehicles that have spent long amounts of time in humid regions, especially Florida, Texas, other parts of the Gulf Coast and in Southern California. More than 70 million Takata inflators have been or will be recalled by 2019 in the largest and most complex recall action in U.S. history.
