Side/window Air Bag problems of the 2008 Toyota Yaris

Two problems related to side/window air bag have been reported for the 2008 Toyota Yaris. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2008 Toyota Yaris based on all problems reported for the 2008 Yaris.

1 Side/window Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 05/23/2016

Takata recall thankfully, no incident yet. Received interim recall notice in may 2016, stating they would send another notice when the remedy had been prepared. Six months later, it has not. Conveniently, Toyota absolves themselves of responsibility by stating: "until the remedy becomes available, we recommend that you do not operate the vehicle with an occupant in the front passenger seat. " this is not a reasonable remedy for such a long time period, and my circumstances are such that my wife and I have no alternative but to continue driving our only car, with cargo in the back and passengers in the front. Most disturbing to me is the fact that it is only the front passenger airbag implicated in the recall. If the driver's side airbags have the same problem, would Toyota advise me not to operate the vehicle with an occupant in the driver's seat? no, because then the car would be completely non-operable, and Toyota would have a much greater liability to provide replacement vehicles, right? have they just done the math and concluded it's better to settle driver side bags fatalities in court than to replace all those faulty airbags? I do not feel safe driving my own car, and I do not feel satisfied with Toyota's delayed response to this life-threatening defect. Here's a simple suggestion: if they can't replace 50,000,000 airbags all at once, why not disable the airbags until such time as it won't shoot metal shards into people's faces? this should be a standard feature available in all cars with the turn of a key.

2 Side/window Air Bag problem

Failure Date: 01/16/2009

Vehicle spun around many times out of control on an expressway hitting the guard rail several times striking the front and sides of my vehicle at a speed of 50 mph, during this time, all air bags failed to deploy resulting in injury to driver, which was the lone occupant.


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