http://knowrecall.com/takata-corp-fi...airbag-recall/

 

Saw this on the news yesterday morning. Did a double take when they said the name. Pretty crazy.

 

Largest recall in the history of histories (still have not done my EvO)

Even my Scion DD has the passenger side recall. I have disconnected it until they get their inventories in

 

We all have multiples of these little explosive devices (made by others) aimed at us. If they don't kill us they'll, at the very least, total our cars for us.

 

Airbags save lives, until they become claymores and kill you lol. Unplugged mine for now.

 

I'll certainly be happy to have airbags when I do actually hit something.

But, brakes, electronics, tires, and suspensions are so much better than what I had in the 73 Pontiac Ventura when I started driving. Pretty much everyone wear their seat belts these days - compare that to lap belts...

 

My girl is still waiting for Mercedes to swap the air bag, we call and they keep saying they are waiting for them to come in for the recall...

 

One of the most serious, inconveniencing recalls of all time!!!

 

I mean, it's just an airbag...Just a life! so now with this bankruptcy, I hope it won't delay that fix any longer than it would have been already.

 

What will all the hard parkers do for seat belts, now?

 

I plan on completely removing my passenger airbag (same manufacturer) on both my Evo IX and my Mazda 4x4 truck. I wear my seatbelt all the time religiously, and I don't like the idea of airbags to begin with.

 

"Takata’s total liabilities stand at 1.7 trillion yen ($15 billion), Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd estimated."

I heard on the Automobile Network that GM tried to duplicate the Takata design twenty years ago because it was so inexpensive to build and found their copy sometimes inflated and sometimes exploded. Well, everyone else liked the price.

So now I suppose Takata will be a new entity coming out of bankruptcy and discharge all liability. Will it again be able to make money selling airbags?

 

I pulled the airbag fuse in my car. Don't need to be killing my wife...

 

Weird it never effected the 03 model, good thing, I prefer airbags but don't know I would have trusted mitsu to perform the fix properly on my car

 

I found it interesting seeing who were the early adopters of the Takata airbag. Some of this will depend on when the maker introduced a new model or where the vehicle was made, for example the Ford Ranger made by Madza, or even when the maker started making cars, for example Telsa.

BMW 2000
Honda 2001
Infiniti 2001
Nissan 2001
Acura 2002
Lexus 2002
Dodge 2003
Pontiac 2003
Subaru 2003
Ford 2004
Mazda 2004
Mitsubishi 2004
Audi 2005
Chrysler 2005
Saab 2005
Lincoln 2006
Mercury 2006
Volkswagen 2006
Cadillac 2007
Chevrolet 2007
Jeep 2007
Land Rover 2007
Saturn 2008
Scion 2008
Jaguar 2009
Ferrari 2010 - loved seeing this one on the list
McLaren 2011
Telsa 2012

It looks like, having BMW in the bag, they signed contracts with three car makers per year, probably as they expanded production.