Posted on 12/20/2022 10:00:53 AM PST by BenLurkin
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed the death Monday. It was the third death attributed to a recalled Takata airbag in a Fiat Chrysler sedan in 2022 and the fifth in total involving such airbags in any car over the past year.
Fiat Chrysler’s latest “Do Not Drive” warning concerns around 276,000 vehicles, including 2005-2010 Dodge Magnums, Chargers and Challengers, and Chrysler 300 sedans of the same model years. Owners of these vehicles are encouraged to check if their cars’ Takata airbags are included in the recall and to call 833-585-0144 to schedule tows and repairs free of charge.
Those with vehicles containing the recalled Takata airbags are also urged not to drive the cars until repairs are made. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is also offering to provide transportation to and from its service centers for affected drivers.
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Well that blows.
I thought all this was dealt with long ago or are these the new and improved Takata bags? /sarc
“Well that blows.”
No, that BLASTS.
At Fiat/Chrysler, quality certainly AIN’T ‘job 1’!
What really blows is that they're urging you not to drive your vehicle, but they're still out of replacement airbags so they can't fix your vehicle.
Yeah, I’m not seeing a mass mailing of 276,000 vouchers to Enterprise rent-a-car coming.
I had a rental for 6 weeks or so while the local Ford dealership waited on airbag replacements for my Ford Edge, rental paid for by Ford. This due to a big airbag related recall toward the end of 2018.
Enterprise gave me a Chevy Equinox LT, good gas mileage and comfortable. At the time I was having to do a lot of interstate driving, so I piled up the miles on the Chevy. Worked out ok for me since I didn’t put the miles on my personal vehicle.
“but they’re still out of replacement airbags so they can’t fix your vehicle.”
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“We have the parts, and the service is free,” said Tom McCarthy, global head of Technical Safety and Regulatory Compliance at Stellantis, in a statement shared with Nexstar. “We will provide alternative transportation, also free, to help people get to and from our dealerships, as needed.”
Safer than the SARS2 mRNA vaxes.
Airbags are just one of those “feel good” Democrat inventions for political points.
Good seat belts are good enough, lots safer, and cheaper.
Don’t want to use them? Then you are just another organ donor like motorcyclists that don’t wear helmets.
World needs lots of organ donors.
Take the airbag out.
Two years ago the horn stopped working on my 2012 Toyota Tacoma except when you turned the wheel all the way to the right.
This module underneath the airbag needed to be replaced. It controlled all the buttons on the steering wheel including the horn, radio volume, station, blue tooth phone controls.
You had to take the airbag out to replace this module underneath it. There are literally two screws and a wiring plug to disconnect the air bag.
I sat in the passenger seat as my buddy Walt took it apart and put the new module in. Total time about 20 minutes. I could have easily done it myself.
FIAT. Fix it again, Tony.
Not true. Seat belts were the first great leap forward in automotive safety. But airbags were the 2nd great leap forward, and automatic emergency braking is now the 3rd great leap forward in cutting fatalities. Other technologies (pretensioners, crumple zones, lane-keeping cameras, anti-lock brakes, etc.) have all played their role as well, but those are the big three. (I was an automotive quality engineer focused on safety technologies for 25 years in my first career.)
I’ll defer to your automotive safety experience.
As a Boeing Engineer with 20 years in Experimental flight test and having had my designs certified for flight. I don’t think much of airbags. I don’t think you are allowed to ship them as cargo on aircraft. Much like lithium batteries.
Engineering is all about trade-offs.
Auto people accept more death than I did on aircraft safety decisions.
Aloha.
Want to improve traffic safety?
Rip all the “safety equipment” out of cars. Seatbelts, air bags, all of it.
Replace it with a sharpened 6 inch long stainless steel spike right in the middle of the steering wheel pointed at the driver’s chest.
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The law states a violation of up to $250K per occurrence, or $500K if they can prove you were aware of the law. I still remember old Ed Liuzzo when they passed the class attendance roster around for everyone to sign. He rocked back on his chair, folded his hands TIGHTLY across his chest, and made it absolutely clear he was not going to sign. :-D
BTW, in 2009 I nodded off taking my kids home from a church Christmas party and drifted into the oncoming lane. Even with an airbag the other driver did not survive, but I did with just a few broken bones. So I'm sure it saved my life. I was still recovering when I was assigned to the first lane-keeping camera warning system going into production...
I had my airbag replaced by the dealer and later I was rear ended at a traffic light and my car totaled. The seat belt saved me. No airbag went off.
I wonder if they even replaced it??
Usually no airbag sensors in the rear of the vehicle...(rear-end collisions push you back into the seat w/a rebound handled by the seatbelt):
https://autoily.com/do-airbags-deploy-in-a-rear-end-collision/
https://autoily.com/when-do-airbags-deploy/
I definitely went forward!! My sunglasses flew off.
The seatbelts restrained me.
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