Your Safety Is at Risk: The Truth About Cheap Airbags and Toyota's Electric Cars

There were illegally imported replacement airbag inflators by the number of BTN60DB that has now killed 11 people in the United States.

The newest death was a 2018 Chevy Equinox in Dallas, Texas.

Previous deaths were Chevy Malibus, Hyundai Sonatas.

Now, these are aftermarket replacement inflators.

So that a normal VIN recall might not find that you had one in.

If it's been replaced, it might have been replaced with one of these.

The recall is for the original one, not for the one that they replaced it with.

So if you are buying a used car that has had airbag deployment and repair of that airbag since the year 2020, You want to do a little research before you buy that car.

It might have had the airbag replaced with one of these Chinese replacement inflators that has killed 11 people in the United States so far.

It's just sneaky how these companies are just, you know, they're buying crap.

They're not telling anybody, yeah, we replaced your airbag inflator.

How do you know where it came from, right? But they're buying this Chinese stuff because it costs less.

It comes to your life.

I don't think you care about, you know, Generally, if your airbag goes off anyways, the insurance is paying for it.

So you don't even care.

The insurance is paying for it.

And the fact that these body shops are using these inflators that came from China instead of the original ones, it's a pretty raw deal.

So if you are looking at a used car and if you find the history of it, that the airbag was deployed and was replaced, you want to find out.

personally my advice is if you get a car fax or whatever a used car you're looking at it says it was in an accident where the airbags deployed don't even buy the car who wants to buy a car that was in an accident with airbags deployed maybe they didn't fix it right all the electronics that are in there could have been damaged maybe it'll go down the road soon and something major will go wrong and a mechanic will say look uh this is a replacement airbag and the old one destroyed a bunch of stuff and you can cost your fortune if you find that a car had airbag deployment my advice is this don't buy a used car that has had the airbag deployed well here's yet another reason to listen to me when I say don't buy an electric car now they haven't really figured it out yet Nobody knows what battery systems they're going to use.