DETROIT (AP) — The government is urging owners of older Hondas and Acuras to stop driving them and get them repaired after tests found that their Takata air bag inflators are extremely dangerous.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has new data showing that chances are as high as 50 percent that the inflators can explode in a crash.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says the vehicles should be fixed as soon as possible before they cause more deaths or injuries.
Takata inflators can explode with too much force, blowing apart a metal canister and sending shrapnel into drivers and passengers. At least 11 people have died and more than 100 have been injured.
The advisory covers vehicles from the 2001 to 2003 model years.
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well I’d love to but my local dealer is making me wait months
Wow, really?
In many ways, it’s no longer true that you can go into a place of business and stomp your feet until you get what you want, but this may be an exception. If you throw enough of a fit, they will break.
I got like a million robocalls from Honda reminding me about this. Finally did it a few months ago.
Don’t put it off.
I have an '06. I’m fine, right?
This is a new advisory. An older one included my 2007.