Airbag recall - still ongoing!

[Crossy]

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? 

[transam]

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.....😋..........🤭

[Ralf001]

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.

[Crossy]

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.

[Rampant Rabbit]

1 minute 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, it's never actually let us down.

That sounds  like "Triggers" broom!!!

Still original just had 3  new  handles and 6  new  heads

[ExpatOilWorker]

I got the same letter from BMW.

Apparently it is only the drivers airback that is ready to kill you.

[Rampant Rabbit]

Just now, ExpatOilWorker said:

I got the same letter from BMW.

Apparently it is only the drivers airback that is ready to kill you.

let the wife drive

[Crossy]

Just now, Rampant Rabbit said:

That sounds  like "Triggers" broom!!!

 

I tried explaining "Trigger's broom" to a couple of my local engineers.

 

I think I failed

[ExpatOilWorker]

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.

[HauptmannUK]

58 minutes 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? 

Its reckoned around 67 million defective Takata airbags were made. Its actually  the Takata PSAN inflator unit that's the problem. The chemicals inside (ammonium nitrate) degrade and the inflator can detonate abruptly rather than combust and inflate smoothly. This can throw parts of the inflator and shroud into the face of the occupant. The degradation is worse in hot climates.

I part-own a sales/service car dealership in the UK and we always ensure recalls are done on used cars we offer for sale.  We have to take cars to the franchise dealer - very inconvenient because there have been long delays on supply of some of these airbag units and we are reluctant to sell a car with an outstanding airbag recall. Honda, Mazda, Ford are worst affected but pretty much all manufacturers seem to have installed them at some time or other.

[Crossy]

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.

[Lacessit]

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.