Tl*the contact owns a 2005 honda accord. While driving 45 MPH, the contact heard an explosion and noticed that the passenger side air bag deployed inadvertently. The dealer and manufacturer were notified and advised him to call his insurance company. The vehicle was driven to the dealer and they suggested that something could have struck the frame rail and caused the air bag to deploy. The vehicle has not been repaired. The current mileage was 32,407 and failure mileage was 32,395. Updated 12/11/08 *bf updated 12/11/08
2005 Honda Accord airbags complaints
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I purchase this vehicle on april 28th 2008. The carfax report had an accident indicator by the second owner, but did not mention what type of accident in terms of moderate, minor, no damage, etc. This report was printed march 24th 2008. When I bought the vehicle the air bag light was on, and when driving; it still stayed on and I told atlanta used car dealership, who told me to take it to the honda dealership to look at it and stated that its probably a glitch. I took the vehicle to the honda car dealership to inspect. The honda dealership found the SRS control unit and the passenger side curtain airbag faulty. As stated on my customer invoice from gwinnett place honda, the passenger side air bag appeared to be cut out. Carfax did not report that there is a deficient airbag. Another incident found is that the accelerator occasionally stick when trying to depress. The honda dealership found there was a carbon build up and it needed service. The dealer replaced the right outer tie rod end, which is on the right passenger where the accident occurred. The dealer stated it was unsafe for me to drive without replacing the tie rod, which was serviced and they also performed a 4 wheel alignment and test drive before I left. My experience has LED me to take the initiative to communicate with my attorney general's office, and other consumer protection agencies to report this incident. Sincerely, olutomilola aiyetiwa
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I was traveling at a speed of about 45 MPH. The driver's side curtain airbag, driver's seat airbag, and driver's seatbelt spontaneously deployed. There is no apparent reason for this.
I currently own a 2005 honda. I just recently had a problem with it that really has me concerned. From what I'm told by the service manager at one honda dealership the wiring harness under the driverside seat was too short and broke. The SRS (supplemental restraint system) light went on indicating a problem with the airbag system. This apparently detects when someone is leaning to far foward in the seat and would prevent the airbag deploying and injuring them. This disabled the airbag in my car. No airbag. No protection. The wiring harness was replaced as well as the sensor assembly. This fixed the problem. I am reporting this because the 2004 honda accords had a recall on this problem. I have an 05 and the same thing happened. This is a problem honda should fix immediatley. I'm told the 05's have no recalls. I want to be protected in case of an accident. Honda needs to fix this in all the 05's. The SRS wiring harness should not be so delicate or short that it can break just from moving your seat back and forth.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 honda accord hybrid. While driving 35 MPH on the highway the vehicle was hit on the passenger side and pushed across 3 lanes into a parking lot. The vehicle stopped when it was backed into a light pole. The front and side air bags did not deploy. The road conditions were normal. The vehicle was towed to a garage. The driver had cuts and bruises; his wife was seated in the front passenger seat and suffered a broken eye socket and bruises. The VIN, engine size, number of cylinders and mileage were unknown. The consumer provided pictures of the damaged vehicle. Updated 07/18/07
While my son was driving my vehicle, a 2005 honda accord ex-l, he was involved in a head-on crash in which he was injured and the vehicle received heavy damage. My son was taken to the hospital due to cervical spine, lumbar and chest injury. The vehicle had struck another vehicle at a speed of about 35 MPH and the airbag failed to deploy. On the dashboard the airbag sign did light on, however, no airbag had deployed. The seat belt pre-tensioner had fried since the seat belt was locked and was not retracting in addition, the seat belt pre-tensioner had fries. I had contacted honda north america, and they reported there was nothing wrong with the vehicle and the vehicle behaved as it was suppose to. However, after contacting the federal safety agency, the representative stated with a 2005 honda accord, if the seat belt pre-tensioner fires, the airbag should fire simultaneously, who then suggested me to submit a claim to the federal safety agency. The vehicle did undergo repair authorized by the insurance company. The seat belt was replaced in addition to the airbag module and other associated items. However, the old items are not available.
I was traveling west bound on west 84th street in hialeah,florida. A vehicle made a left turn failing to yield the right of way and crashed with me. The air bag deployed with excessive force causing me all kind of injuries, pain, bruises, etc. I sustained a fracture on my right finger, chest and neck pain and contusion. Arms contusions and body pains. I strongly believe that the air bag malfunctioned and caused all these pains, bruises and injuries.
On monday 06/05/06 at around 8:45 pm. As I was driving home on the freeway. I started smelling something like gun powder when a few seconds later all of the sudden the driver side air bags deployed with no reason what so ever, the seat belt pulled me back against the seat really hard. I didn't crash, I did not come in contact with anything that could have caused this. Thank god I did not have any injuries other than a pain on my left arm due to the deployment of the air bag located on the left side of the driver seat and a slight pain on my lower back I think due to the seat belt pulling me back so hard as the air bags were being eployed.
A head on collision resulted in an airbag malfunction. The airbag exploded and discharged metal fragments causing injury to the driver. The airbag was replaced when car was repaired.
Dt: the contact's vehicle was involved in a multiple vehicle crash. This vehicle was the fourth to collide with the other vehicles. Upon impact, ,both frontal airbags failed to deploy and the driver side seat belt did not restrain her properly. The seat belt allowed her to collide with the steering wheel and caused minor bruises. The frontal collision caused frame damage to vehicle. A police report taken at the scene. The vehicle is currently at a collision center being inspected.
Dt: the contact stated after purchasing the vehicle he began to notice cracks in the steering wheel above the air bags. He contacted honda and spoke with a representative. The representative had someone else to call him back. The representative told him that this problem was his fault because of the way he was pressing the horn. Both times the airbag were replaced by the dealership under warranty. He went to a body shop and saw two other vehicles with the same problem ,and they told him if the air bag deployed then it could cause injury to him.*ak updated 12/27/05.
Dt: the contact stated while driving the passenger curtain and seat air bag deployed. The housing for the air bag on the door was damaged. The contact did not run over anything recently. She backed into a curb days ago, but the street she was driving on yesterday has no curbs. The insurance company inspected the vehicle and stated that hitting the curb days ago could not have caused it, but according to the dealership , it did. The manufacturer was relying solely on the dealer's evaluation. The vehicle is still at the dealership and has not been repaired.
While driving home on interstate 285 in traffic I heard a loud pop in my left ear and my seat belt tightened to an unbearable tightness. My car filled with a powdery like substance and that's when I realized that my side curtain and seat airbags had deployed. There was nothing in the highway that I could have hit. My car was drivable and I pulled over to see if there was any damage. There was no damage so I called the dealership and took it in. They did a visual inspection and could find no reason why the air bags should have deployed. They said they would have to keep the car over night so that they could look at it more closely. The next day I called to check the status of my car and at that time I was informed that they could not find any damage to my car but they needed to continue looking. 15 minutes later I received a phone call stating that they had found a small scratch on the bottom of my car and that was the cause of my airbags deploying. I am insisting that I did not hit anything because the highway was clear at the time. Am I getting the run around from honda? Is this normal?
My wrists were severely burned from a steering wheel airbag deployment. I was hit head-on. My vehicle was stopped.
We purchased a new 2005 honda accord ex-l (4 cyl) on july 31, 2005. 3 weeks into ownership, the airbag warning light came on and stayed on. The car was being driven normally at the time. We followed the owner's manual instructions and returned to the dealer for service on 8/19/2005 (bankston honda in lewisville, tx). The service department ran a computer test on the car and confirmed that the driver's side airbag was not receiving a signal, and in fact would not deploy in the event of a crash. In short, the airbag was non-functional. The dealer had the car until today, 8/24/2005. Their fix was to "clear the code" and make the light go off. They claim they were unable to find the cause of the problem, and wanted to return the car to us. No parts were replaced. The light simply turned off and they consider that "fixed" I suppose. I insisted on an explanation, since this is a critical safety item. We were told by the dealer that in honda accords, the airbag's functionality can be compromised by a cell phone being in the car! If this is the case, the cars should be recalled! There's even a special power jack between the front seats for cell phones. There's no telling how many honda drivers are in danger if what the dealer told me is the case. How can a car manufacturer and dealer knowingly sell a vehicle whose primary safety feature deactivates because the owner is carrying a cell phone? We left the dealer with our car (8/24/05). About 2 miles down the road the airbag light came on again. We immediately returned to the dealer. They have the car again and are going to call "honda tech" for advice. I am thoroughly disappointed with this vehicle and am angry that we and thousands of other accord drivers could be at risk of injury/death because of a known problem that hasn't been announced by the mfg and remedied. I don't want the car anymore because I don't believe it's safe. I want my money back.
Dt: the consumer was driving a 2005 honda accord hybrid. At approximately 45 MPH consumer's vehicle hit another vehicle and ended up in a ditch. There was front damage to the vehicle. Upon impact, the air bags did not deploy. The other vehicle was hit with the driver's side front end. The highway patrolman on the scene stated that the airbags should have deployed. The vehicle was towed, and it has not yet been inspected. Consumer sustained severe whiplash. There was a police report taken. The other driver was charged with failure to yield right of way. The other vehicle, 2000 volkswagen, was totaled. There were six airbags on this vehicle and none of them deployed. *ak
Dt: consumer states her vehicle collided with a truck cabin that was left abandoned on freeway 280 in palo alto, ca. The vehicle was traveling at approximately 60 MPH. The vehicle spun several times and side swiped another vehicle parked in the vehicle service lane. It landed in the hillside of the freeway. The vehicle safety features included front, side, and panel airbags. None of which deployed. The vehicle has been declared a total loss by american express property and causality insurance. It is presently located sturken auto body in san jose, ca. It is scheduled for immediate towing by the insurance company to iv company in north hollywood, ca for salvage. There was a police report. The consumer was injured in this vehicle. There maybe other injuries because there were 4 other vehicles involved. The consumer has not seen the police report yet. The truck cabin was unavoidable; the car on the side of the freeway had hit it first.
While driving home on interstate 93 in heavy traffic I noticed a small object in the road that I had thought I avoided, but in a instant the passenger side and seat air bag deployed. The car filled with a smoky substance, causing visibility to be limited, my wife and I were startled but ok, we first thought we had been in an accident. We pulled over and checked the car and found no damage. The car is 2005 new honda accord hybrid brand new with only 500 miles on it. After we composed ourselves we called the dealer and they indicated to park the car and do not drive it so we had it towed. The dealer put the car on a lift and called us to say they could see a scratch under the car where something must have hit a sensor and then triggered the air bags. If this had been on the drivers side I can assure your the results could have been much worst. I cannot believe that such a small object would trigger this to go off, rather than a safety item these are a hazard. I will fear seeing an object on the highway in the future and always wonder if the air bags will deploy. Does this sound normal or was the dealer telling me the truth? I had to file an insurance claim because the dealer stated it was my fault. The car is now sitting waiting for the insurance adjuster to look at it.
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