Honda gave a free rental because their driver's side airbags had the defect, and obviously you can't not have somebody in the driver's seat. I don't think they are for the passenger side.The recall is because the airbags can explode and shoot shrapnel into your face and neck. Nobody should ride in the passenger seat until it is replaced.
Well I think were getting a little dramatic here... let's not exaggerate the issue
When you do a little bit of research you realize all these cars have been on the road for close to if not more than a decade
She drives a 2007.
a 2007 model year cars are sold in 2006 we are halfway through 2016 so pretty much exactly 1 decade
(1) The Takata airbag recall for the passenger seat. How real is the risk of a passenger being injured? I don't have passengers often but sometimes I do. Are my children at risk being in rear facing carseats? I would think forward facing would be more risky.
The airbag will still only go off if you were to get in an accident and it is probably unlikely you will get in an accident in the next few years.
On top of that there's the fact that it is extremely unlikely that your car even has a problem airbag because only a very small percentage of the airbags used in cars were defective but it is being recalled because that number is slightly over the defective tolerances what the law considers "acceptable"
On top of that research into the issue shows that even if you had a problem airbag the issue only develops when the car is exposed to high heat and humidity for a long period of time which you should not experience in Colorado
and on top of that you only occasionally drive with people in the passenger seat and your children are seated in rear facing seats in the back seats which is not close to the airbag
I would not worry about it because the risk is far below the other risks we take every day as part of life
I don't think people are realizing how low the safety issues of this recall are so here's 2 statistics:
The fatality rate in Colorado per 100,000 miles driven (around 10 years of driving) is 0.1% or 1 out of ever 1000 people die just from driving
The injury rate for the airbag recall over the past 10 years from 37 million vehicles is 0.00037% or 1 out of 266,187 people that have been driving these cars are injured
correct my math here if you think this is wrong but it looks to me that you are 266 times as likely to die in a car accident then you are to be injured by a faulty airbag