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FateEntity t1_is8rcmt wrote

Reply to comment by coelurosauravus in TIL the first confirmed victim of Takata airbags was 18y/o Parham. As she drove around a car park, she lightly bumped another vehicle making the airbag inflate, sending metal pieces at such tremendous force that one hit the teen’s neck slicing open her carotid artery. She bled to death in her seat by ahm713

Are all air bag replacement free? I'm driving a 1993 Honda Accord LX. Been in two minor accidents and air bags never went off, but someone else owned this car before me.

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coelurosauravus t1_is8sgw1 wrote

To answer your question, it is highly unlikely your car is affected by this specific recall.

Most Honda models that were affected were between the years 2001-2016ish? Maybe even into 2018. It was also not uniform across models. '01 accords had mostly the driver side affected but passenger side would be fine and the civics would usually have both affected.

Without looking at your car, my guess is your airbags probably failed to deploy from vehicle and component age. Electrical components and sensors get funky over time. For all I know your inflator in your car may be disconnected or you may not have an inflator at all. I'm looking through some Google searches and it says some accord sedan body types dont have passenger airbags

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Swag_Grenade t1_is9gk0j wrote

Damn I drive a 2008 Civic I'm gonna have to check on this. This is the first time I've even heard of any of this shit, kind of agitating TBH.

I did get into an accident in a 2007 Civic where the airbags deployed, luckily no one's fucking neck was sliced open. Didn't think too much of it since, but what the fuck.

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FateEntity t1_is8t0qb wrote

Gotcha, thank you! Yeah mine does not have a passenger one.

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Stoopidshthead t1_isa7xfo wrote

Not just Honda, I have an ‘05 Mercedes with one in the steering wheel.

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