Federal agency opens investigation into 2008 Honda Accord air bags

“Honda will cooperate with the NHTSA by means of the investigation course of, and we’ll proceed our personal inner evaluate of the out there info”, the corporate stated.

ODI has identified 19 VOQ reports alleging failure of the air bag SRS control module. “This malfunction causes the air bag status/readiness indicator lamp to illuminate and the air bag system remains disabled until repaired”.

If the NHTSA’s investigation finds that the defect in the airbag controlling SRS module of the affected 2008 Honda Accords warrants a recall, Honda will apparently have to recall almost 384,000 units of the 2008 Accord sedans in the US.

The federal safety agency said consumers have filed 19 complaints claiming that the air bag controlling module, called an SRS module, failed.

One complaint read, “My son was driving my vehicle and did not make a turn and ran into a concrete block wall at about 50 miles per hour”.

NHTSA said the inability for the modules to communicate “raises concern about the readiness of the entire supplemental restraints system”. One of the reports involved a frontal crash event where the frontal air bags did not deploy.

There was an injury of unknown severity in the incident that occurred five months ago, the complaint said. The owner asked Honda to recall the vehicle and was told the vehicle was no longer covered by the warranty. The only way to fix the issue is to replace the whole component, and the Detroit News reports that can cost $500 or more.

The Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration is investigating reviews that a defect in sure Honda Accords might forestall the air luggage from deploying in a crash.