All New Land Cruisers Placed on “No Sale” Status?

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Then I sold the car to a friend 5/17 before they had the remedy available (I told him all about it), and he STILL hasn't had the recall done (despite me warning him several times).

My crew responded to a traffic accident where a guy had at least two small holes in his neck where metal from the airbag module went in. They had no idea why he was bleeding there until someone on scene realized it was a Honda and connected the dots. At that point he wasn’t allowed to move his head at all, and it turned into a whole different type of call. He was delivered to the ER without crashing or other major problems from it that I know about, but if one of those chunks had hit a carotid artery?

People need to understand how serious that airbag recall is.



Oh, and whoever said if your seatbelts tension on hitting the brakes hard the system is still working.. I’m pretty sure that is a different system than the propellant-driven tensioners used by the abs system.

 

[Markuson]

If you read the announcement, they are not reporting any issues with the airbags themselves or flying metal. They are reporting the erroneous deactivation of the passenger seat...including the otherwise normal illumination of the “Airbag off” light you get when no front passenger (or weight on the seat) is detected...resulting in no deployment if you get in an accident.

So the flaw happens long before any impact.
Since it then reports airbag deactivation via the normal indicator, I deduce that if you are paying attention to that indicator, you’ll know it’s been erroneously deactivated. But of course no way Toyota wants to rely on all of us paying attention to that.

Maybe that’s incorrect... But I’m Just saying what I’m seeing in the official announcement tells me we appear to have a way to determine if our passenger is in danger...or not.

EDit:
If anyone can poke holes in that logic, please do. I’m no authority on anything at all. Just a guy looking at the details & trying to make a reasonable assessment for my own practical response to the potential danger.

 

[4xoddic]

But I’m Just saying what I’m seeing in the official announcement tells me we appear to have a way to determine if our passenger is in danger...or not.

I've somehow always imagined your constant 200 passenger as David Letterman, in his suit of Velcro.