Karlsweldt wrote:
If your vehicle is listed, contact your vehicle dealer group if not notified as yet. This is a serious recall, and some people lost their life due to the defect.
the problem is there's nothing any owner can do...there simply are not enough replacements for the affected vehicles. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes at least 5 years before impacted vehicles have their opportunity - and in that time period a significant number of vehicles just won't be on the road anymore. the point being, the longer takata takes to make/ship replacements, the less they need to replace. I'd just rather they give me some kind of cash compensation, and i'll trade in my vehicle to a dealership towards a non-potentially-killer vehicle.
it's entirely unfair for consumers to be told to literally risk their lives by using a safety feature, with no ability to rectify it(or in the vast majority of people, the ability to not drive the car until it's fixed).
the most recent recommendation I got was that you are supposed to sit as far back as is possible in the driver's seat. the fatalities, and majority of injuries, reported are from shorter drivers who sit closest to the steering wheel. luckily, I'm 6'6" - so sit as far back my vehicles let me anyways...but still, that's an ACTUALY recommendation on how to not be seriously injured or potentially killed by a safety mechanism.
I wish I could search for vehicles by which takata has no association with so that I could avoid supporting them for the rest of my life.
-Roach
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