NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Honda announced it is expanding a previously announced recall to replace an airbag inflator in an additional 379,000 U.S. vehicles.
In a statement posted on its Web site late Tuesday, Honda said the driver's airbag inflators in these certain vehicles may expand with too much pressure, which can cause the inflator casing to break and could result in injury or death.
So, Toyotas accelerate unpredictably and can't stop right; Fords have messed up cruise control; and now Hondas have problems with the air bags. Interesting. With Honda, it's even more interesting - the cars involved are all 8-9 years old, and this recall first went out over a year ago. This lends credence, IMHO, to the theory that there's more to the recalls than a desire to keep the public safe. GM and Chrysler have been curiously absent from recall notices, leading many to speculate that the recent rounds of recalls have been motivated for political reasons after the bailouts of these manufacturers.
Given that they have to go back 8 years to find something on Honda, I'm inclined to agree with this assessment...
That is all.
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Looks like it's a good time to start walking more. I am not going to support Government Motors, and I can't fit in those dang Asian cars.
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I'll just stick with my 14 year old jeep, thanks.
Yup. Like we were talking about, it doesn't pass the smell test. I'm having this mental image of the Secretary of Transportation, with fins and scales, wrapped in a few pages of the NY Times.
The recalls seem to be piling up: Two (of 3) of our 3 new Fire Dept. vehichles are being recalled, and the third one hasn't even arrived yet.....
... somebody somewhere has been kicked in his sinecure and told to earn his keep.
Do Ford's still have the messed up Cruise Control? I finally decided to go in and get the modal in my 2001 Ranger fixed this winter (I didn't know it would only take them 10 mins).
seems like someone is trying to knock all the other brands down to help sales..........
the corruption from the "we know better than you" crowd just makes me sick..
sad part to all this is that there are more American parts on 'foreign' cars than there are on the domestics.... My Subaru was built in IN, I live 30 miles from Toyota in Georgetown, KY (that town is primarily employeed by Toyota in one form or another, whether its direct or for one of the other MFGs that make parts for the assembly plant), that story is the same for more other communities that have 'foreign' brand manufacturers in them.... I have not heard the same about the Ford plant in Louisville......
Recall, schmecall: it doesn't matter to me. My next car won't be from Government Motors, either the Chevrolet or Chrysler divisions.
It likely won't be a Ford, either. The UAW already got my tax dollars and a big chunk of folks' pension plans - including that of my soon-to-retire father - in the GM and Chrysler bailouts; they don't need my business as well. And lots of UAW members got hosed in the process, like five thousand assembly line workers here in Missouri when Chrysler's Fenton assembly plants (St. Louis) was shut down as part of the bailout/reorgainzation plan.
I don't want anything built in a UAW shop. Screw 'em. That class warfare crap works both ways.
No, my next car will likely be built by Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi or Subaru. Odds are I'm more likely to get an actual American-built car from one of the Japanese manufacturers, anyway.
--Wes S.
Gay-ron-tee that it's a political thing-
just wait and see what happens when the fed bails out the newspapers-you thought we had bias now-
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