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Honda is a recognized leader in automotive safety
Pioneering innovations like side curtain airbags,
Honda’s worldwide “Safety for Everyone” commitment
includes the largest indoor crash test facility in the world.
Honda vehicles
feature sophisticated, integrated systems, including SRS Airbag systems,
to help prevent collisions or protect from collision impact.
The systems have several airbags and sensors,
designed and tested specifically for each vehicle, that transmit impact data
to an intelligent Control Unit
that determines which airbag to deploy,
in what order, and when, to best protect the occupants.
In a collision of appropriate force, the control unit triggers a propellant that inflates the airbag in milliseconds.
Current front passenger airbags may deploy in two stages,
depending on factors like; collision impact, seat position, or occupant’s weight.
Of course, delivering all the benefits of the system means they have to work,
and work as designed. Anything that changes the system, can change the performance - and the results.
This is a Honda airbag
and this is not.
So where do "other" airbags come from?
From the internet –
where it's easy for an unsuspecting owner of a body shop –
not to mention a shop with other motives - to find fake, counterfeit airbags
offered as Original Airbags for Hondas - and other OEM’s.
and side by side tests of four airbags acquired from the internet yield some very sobering results…
In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
conducted their own tests, and issued a consumer advisory…
These airbags aren’t just some attempt at a less expensive,
rough equivalent of a Honda airbag…
they are fakes, pretending to be what they’re not—described as Honda Airbags,
often including Honda logos,
and range from a two stage airbag
configured to deploy only one stage,
to some crude approximation of a bag that might hold air…
but is improperly folded –
In any case, it’s virtually impossible for them
to perform precisely the same as the original airbag
with Honda safety systems.
Why is that critical?
Because the airbag must be triggered at the right moment –
and inflate at the same rate as a Honda airbag,
to integrate with the safety systems
and to provide the protection it was designed to deliver.
The blink of an eye takes only a third of a second -
but if an airbag is only a fraction of a second early
or late…
And the idea of counterfeit or salvage airbags - should make you very concerned.
The best way to make sure you have an original Honda Airbag is to make sure
that the parts come from an authorized source of Honda parts - a Honda dealer!
Go to a reputable, professional body shop, and ask where they acquired the airbags.
Genuine Honda airbags
come from Genuine Honda dealers –
and the quality body shops that buy from them.
Honda Genuine Airbags…
Use your melon.