Ford and Honda Add Another Million Vehicles to Deadly Airbag Recall

Matt Posky
by Matt Posky

Ford and Honda are putting more than one million additional vehicles down on the list of recall-worthy products with potentially deadly Takata airbag inflators.

Announced late on Tuesday, Honda Motor Company is recalling roughly 772,000 additional Honda and Acura vehicles in the United States for defective front passenger seat airbag inflators made by Japanese parts supplier. Not to be outdone, Ford is recalling over 816,000 units within the whole of North America for the very same reason.

In case you’ve missed our ongoing coverage of the perilous safety device, Takata supplied automakers with tens of millions of defective airbags that can explode in a crash and fling shrapnel throughout the interior of the car — not unlike a grenade. The faulty airbags have already been attributed to the deaths of 10 Honda passengers and one unlucky Ford owner.

The recent recalls cover the 2006-2009 and 2012 Ford Fusion, Lincoln Zephyr and MKZ. Mustangs from the 2005-2009 and 2012 model years are also subject, as is the 2007-2009 Ford Ranger and Edge, 2006-2009 Mercury Milan, and the 2005-2006 Ford GT.

Of the Hondas recalled, we have the 2005-2012 Honda Pilot, 2006-2012 Honda Ridgeline, 2010-2012 Honda Crosstour, 2005-2011 Honda CR-V, 2005-2011 Honda Element, 2008-2012 Honda Accord, 2006-2011 Honda Civic, 2007-2012 Honda Fit and 2010-2012 Honda Insight.

The 2005-2006 Acura MDX, 2005-2012 Acura RL, 2010-2012 Acura ZDX, 2009-2012 Acura TSX, and 2011-2012 Acura TSX Wagon are also affected. Honda even had to recall a few hundred additional Gold Wing motorcycles equipped with unsound airbags.

If you are new to the story or want to double-check to see if your automobile is one of the 69 million in North America with an ammonium nitrate IED sitting a few inches away from your chest, go to the NHTSA’s website and input your VIN.

Matt Posky
Matt Posky

A staunch consumer advocate tracking industry trends and regulation. Before joining TTAC, Matt spent a decade working for marketing and research firms based in NYC. Clients included several of the world’s largest automakers, global tire brands, and aftermarket part suppliers. Dissatisfied with the corporate world and resentful of having to wear suits everyday, he pivoted to writing about cars. Since then, that man has become an ardent supporter of the right-to-repair movement, been interviewed on the auto industry by national radio broadcasts, driven more rental cars than anyone ever should, participated in amateur rallying events, and received the requisite minimum training as sanctioned by the SCCA. Handy with a wrench, Matt grew up surrounded by Detroit auto workers and managed to get a pizza delivery job before he was legally eligible. He later found himself driving box trucks through Manhattan, guaranteeing future sympathy for actual truckers. He continues to conduct research pertaining to the automotive sector as an independent contractor and has since moved back to his native Michigan, closer to where the cars are born. A contrarian, Matt claims to prefer understeer — stating that front and all-wheel drive vehicles cater best to his driving style.

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  • Ceipower Ceipower on Jan 14, 2017

    How bad has the safety beauracy failed in the u.s.? This has been on going for years now. Embarsssing/deadly. All congressman their families as well as government agencies should have to drive takata equipped vehicles exclusively. Maybe then we'd see some action.

    • Dal20402 Dal20402 on Jan 14, 2017

      What is a "beauracy?" A soft-core flick involving a Fabulous Baker Boy?

  • SaulTigh SaulTigh on Jan 14, 2017

    I'm kinda glad now that my '08 MKZ took a dump on me and that I replaced it by joining the church of the "3-series lessee" or I'd have to deal with this crap too. My Lincoln hate grows (even though I kinda like the new Continental).

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