Front Air Bag Sensor Control problems of the 2000 Toyota Tacoma

The air bag light would come on only when the vehicle was cold. After I warmed the truck up & stut it off,upon restart every thing was normal. Had diagnostics done at westboro Toyota& found faulty air bag sensor. Charged me 85. 00$. Dealer wanted 425. 00$ to fixsensor & I refused. I called Toyota & they refercened me back to westboro Toyota. I talked to rick tonnilli at the dealer. He was very understanding & told me he was going to talk to the district manager. I was called back in a few days with Toyota picking up the cost of the part & I picking up one hour of labor@ 85. 00$. I agreed to this just to the problem fixed. Westboro Toyota has been very excellent & cooperative & I have no complants from them. My qustion is that with the light on the air bags may not deploy in an accident. This would to be a major safety problem?.

Without warning and at anytime the air bag light goes on and off, and the horn blows out on its own. He had to disconnect the battery because of the horn. Dealer said they would charge the caller for looking for the problem. Manufacturer has not been contacted yet.

While traveling at 50 mph car in front of consumer's vehicle suddenly stopped and consumer rear ended the other vehicle. Front of vehicle was pushed in approximately 6 to 8 inches, and none of the airbags deployed. Consumer has contacted dealer, and they said that impact didn't touch airbag sensor. Consumer felt someone could have been seriously injured.