So do the dealers now sell these things on ebay ?
no , not that im aware , TOYOTA MOTOR sales USA mandates the NOS inventory be destroyed now , prior to dumpster because of
ebay
the warranty Air Bag TOKAIRIKA Co. LTD japan problems over the years , were
now being found offered up on
EBAY as used parts
the body shop or private lable garage was installing a Bad unsafe already
warrantied and supposedly trashed air bags back at dealers a second time
around , see all major auto parts especially have like a Serial # or VIN mini #
on them , when TOYOTA found this out in early 2000's heads rolled
out in California headquarters , so TOYOTA wised up a bit and did this next
procedure :
the parts manager
the service manager
and general new car sales manager all once a month would meet at lunch for a
hour , usually last day of month , and bring out the " dealership FOOTBALL "
it got nicknamed , it was a small metal box with a handle , u open it and a 100
foot cord was inside , it ran to the warrantied air bags in the corner parking lot
the parts manager would then press a red button in box and Detonate or
deploy manually the bag .
it was loud
this is still the policy in effect to this day , except TOYOTA sent the dealers
like a big blue trash can to deploy manually the air bags inside like a blast
chamber
well 3 managers are not gonna be selling air bags on
ebay
and there are No more bad toyota air bags being sold on
ebay ............
and dealers will get fined big time if warranty parts find there way on
ebay
so the practice of employees steeling trash out dumpster and ebaying it
is all but gone away ....
times have changed .............