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We bought our Ford Ranger new in 2005.

 

Yesterday we received a recall notice for a "potentially dangerous" airbag, need to take the car to a local dealer to be checked.

 

So, we've been driving around for 19 years with airbags that might not go off, and if they do, they may rip your head off!

 

Wonderful.

 

Just how many duff airbags are really out there? 

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1 minute ago, Crossy said:

We bought our Ford Ranger new in 2005.

 

Yesterday we received a recall notice for a "potentially dangerous" airbag, need to take the car to a local dealer to be checked.

 

So, we've been driving around for 19 years with airbags that might not go off and if they do, they may rip your head off!

 

Wonderful.

 

Just how many duff airbags are really out there? 

Maybe because an airbag at near 20 years old has been found to deteriorate, well it does have a 'BANG' thing inside.....😱

 

Perhaps your ride wasn't designed to last that long.....😋..........🤭

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Posted

Yeah I bought a Navara new.

sold it on.

every 6 months or so I get an  email asking me to bring it back in to replace airbag.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, transam said:

Perhaps your ride wasn't designed to last that long.....😋..........🤭

 

Apart from a front-suspension rebuild (it all got worryingly "loose"), a failed dual-mass flywheel, a couple of prop centre-bearings and UJs and two A/C compressors it's not been a bad ride, in over 350k km it's never actually let us down.

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34 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Apart from a front-suspension rebuild (it all got worryingly "loose"), a failed dual-mass flywheel, a couple of prop centre-bearings and UJs and two A/C compressors it's not been a bad ride, in over 350k km it's never actually let us down.

You also used that car to (almost) kill an old lady on a bicycle 🚲,  right?

It has seen its fair share of action.

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27 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

You also used that car to (almost) kill an old lady on a bicycle 🚲,  right?

It has seen its fair share of action.

 

No, that was the Mu-X, it has a good airbag!

 

A sprained ankle is hardly "almost kill" and she was "ghost-riding" with no lights.

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Posted

It's a funny thing about modern cars, they seem to have more and more things to go wrong.

I drive an elderly Vios, it does not have ABS, let alone an airbag.

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