Honda Malaysia (HM) has announced that customers can now replace their vehicles’ Takata front airbag inflators at selected Petronas stations. With the move, airbag replacements are now available at three main venues, including Mobile Hubs (MH) and all 84 Honda authorised service centres.
To find out the locations and operating hours of the airbag inflator replacement activities at Mobile Hubs and selected Petronas stations, refer to the table posted below. Additionally, customers can also get their airbag inflators replaced at Honda Family Road Trip (HFRT) locations.
As a note, replacement activities at authorised service centres or Petronas stations require an appointment to be made prior, but isn’t required for MH and HFRT locations. Should your car require replacements for both sides (driver and front passenger), the whole process will take no more than 45 minutes to complete.
In addition to these activities, Honda Malaysia is also working closely with the Road Transport Department (JPJ) to approach current owners who are affected by the Takata airbag inflator issue.
According to HM, the stock availability for Takata driver front airbag inflators is at 100%, whereas for Takata passenger front airbag inflators, it is now reaching 75%.
The company also revealed that the replacement of Takata driver front airbag inflators has now reached 75%, and will continue to take additional measures to improve the completion ratio of driver and passenger front airbag inflators replacement.
Honda Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. continues alerting and informing customers of the importance of replacing the affected vehicle’s Takata airbag inflators, via increased frequency of postings on social media and SMS blast. Owners of Honda vehicles affected by the Takata airbag inflator product recall are advised to immediately get their vehicles checked and parts replaced at any Honda Authorized Service Centres, Shopping Mall Hubs or at PETRONAS Stations as soon as possible.
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Great job Honda Malaysia. What’s worrying is that apparently, probematic Takata airbags ended up in a total of 17 brands of cars, including Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Ford, Infiniti, Jaguar, Jeep, Land Rover, Lexus, Mazda, Mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Saab, Toyota and Volkswagen, among others.
BTW, I’ve read here that some people think simple corrosion is the root cause of the Takata exploding airbag canister problem. In fact, it is much more complicated than that. Here’s a summary from findings of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who studied the problem in depth.
The problem has been identified to be moisture ingress into the explosive charge in the inflator canister. The (moist) explosive charge’s “burning rate” is cumulatively increased every time the 32 degrees Centigrade mark is crossed.
In other words, say the “burning rate” starts at 100 units. Every time the explosive charge is heated or cooled past 32 degrees, the burning rate increases (say) by 0.1 unit. So park your car in the sun so that the initially cool interior gets heated and cooled twice a day, brings the burning rate to 100.4 units. You can see that if you do the same thing tomorrow, the burning rate will be 100.8 after the second day of similar heating and cooling, and so on. If you substitute “explosive force” for “burning rate”, you can easily imagine the consequence of the growing explosive force on the inflator canister – instead of just ejecting the airbag when the charge is ignited within, the canister explodes (like a grenade). Note that the problem does not occur spontaneously (i.e. on its own), but only when ignited for airbag deployment.
The potential problem also does not occur if 1) moisture does not enter the canister (via humidity) and 2) the temperature of the (moist) charge does not cross 32 degrees Centigrade too many times. Unfortunately, the temperature and humidity in Malaysia are ideal conditions for potential problems.
Replacement canisters are “mositure proof” and a desiccant (water absorber) is added inside so that if any moisture does get in, it bonds to the desiccant rather than the explosive charge.
BTW, other airbag manufacturers use a different explosive charge that appears to be more stable under “attack” by heat and humidity. Takata moved to this problematic version, based on ammonium nitrate, in 2001.
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Honda has achieved its target to become the brand for the masses and by introducing more low cost cars for 3rw world countries it has now joined other makers known for their low cost vehicles like datsun, tata, lada, great wall, yutong and dacia…bravo honda…die hard fanboys salute you…syabas
So now those honda kapcai riders can upgrade to all these low cost honda cars…good job honda…the masses salute you for a job well done…syabas
Great job Honda! My affected Toyota has not been replaced, the recall was announced since last year. Lousy Toyota taking customer’s safety for granted. My next car would be Honda for sure!
well that should be the way. be proactive and continue to pursue more than one means to get it all off the roads.
I just hope Malaysian will take this opportunity to get it replaced.
Managed to change the inflator a month ago at a mobile hub but HM still kept blasting sms to me for the past one month. Do they still remember what they have done ?
At the same time, Proton remain their attitude “you buy you pay, you die your own business” to the 0 airbags Proton cars owners.
When will toyota recall all ESC-less vios to reinstall ESC?
The problem is not that there’s not enough locations to change the airbags. The problem is that the service centre where I send it does not have enough stock from their supplier. Im told to make “an appointment” before they can change the passenger airbag. And the appointment is subject to their availability in stock! I keep getting letters from Honda with the word “Priority” in red big bold letters. How can it be priority when Honda Principle do not provide enough replacement airbags to their service centres?? Honda, you can do better.
what about those with 6 airbags?
only affected front airbags?
I like to buy honda car because it have a recall package for airbag escpcially at petronas station. no need go to service center mehhhh…