The airbags in the 1998 honda crv's have been found to be defective with no remedy, which is absolutely unacceptable in a vehicle over 20 years old. This vehicle is used to transport my family and it is unbelievable that honda can allow such a fatal problem to go unsolved for so many years. They should be held accountable for any injuries sustained due to these dysfunctional airbags until they are able to replace said airbags without charge.
1998 Honda CR-V airbags complaints
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Weather conditions caused 1998 honda crv to skid out of control. Car was hithead-on by 18-wheeler but honda's air-bag failed to deploy causing injuries to driver of honda. No correction was able to be made. Car was totaled and insurance company took possession of vehicle for salvage.
The battery went dead on my 1998 honda cr-v. I had it replaced, and discovered that the SRS(safety restraint system was disabled as a result of determining that a new battery was needed. I contacted a honda service center and was told that as long as the SRS light was on, the air bag system was off and that it would cost about $90 to have it turned off. I also was told to drive it for a week (without protection from the SRS and perhaps the computer would recycle and turn the SRS back on. My complaint is this: because of poor engineering of the SRS system and the computer, honda has forced me to either drive a car without the safety that I bought, or pay a service center to enable the system...all over a real simple repair...replacing a battery. I can understand the need to reset the clock, radio, or other less essential electronics, but the air bags! Honda is forcing me to spend money that I don't have in order to use a safety system that I feel is essential for driving safety. Honda should enable this system for me at no charge. Please help. Jim davis
Loved my honda cr-v , but on march 20, 2006, I hit a slick spot while it was snowing. I proceeded to lose control of my vehicle, going into the ditch front first. Had a front impact, then began to flip 2-3 times once end to end and skidding 30+ feet. My seat belt held, but my airbags did not deploy, I could have died, and if there had been a passenger, they would have, the whole passenger side was caved in. This was how ever the only problem I had ever experienced with this car. Car is a very reliable car.
While driving at 35 MPH consumer's vehicle was involved in a front end collision. Upon impact, air bags did not deploy. The passenger's air bag deployed 5 minutes later after the collision happened and cracked the windshield. No warning light appeared prior to the crash.
Upon crashing into the rear of another vehicle with cruise control speed set at 60 MPH, there was no deployment of driver's side or passenger's side air bags. Not sure if the vehicle would be totalled. Please provide any further nformation.
Consumer was in an accident, and her air bag did not deploy.
While vehicle was going about 15-20 MPH airbag deployed, driver lost control of vehicle, went off road and the SUV turned over on its side. The manufacturer has been notified.
Vehicle experiences deployment of both air bags while driving at approximately 25 MPH. No pothole or anything was hit or rolled over to cause this condition to happen. Vehicle went out of control, causing consumer serious injuries and passenger minor injuries. Dealer/manufacturer notified.
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