Honda Announces 1.2 Million Vehicle Recall Due To More Faulty Airbags
The scope of the Takata airbag problems continue to widen, as Honda now says that a whopping 1.4 million cars, already with driver airbag issues, will also need their passenger side airbags replaced as well.
The automaker had previously only planned to replace the passenger airbags in 350,000 of those cars in humid areas of the country, which Takata reported were most at risk of problems.
While all recalled cars are repaired at no expense to the vehicle's owner, the widened scope of the issue leads to serious questions about how much danger consumers have been in due to the faulty airbags.
That concern is front and center with the latest recall as the affected models, the 2001 to 2005 Civic and the 2003 to 2007 Accord, are among the best-selling cars in the country.
Airbag maker Takata...