Originally Posted by
pizzaguy
If your airbag was not fixed, eventually, they will contact you thru state records. I get a postcard at least twice a month from Chrysler telling me I should take mine to a dealer for an airbag fix. If you just bought the car, give them a few months to track you down - they WILL track you down!!!
Keep in mind that the 'free' airbag fix may cost you up to $2000, as they may tell you they "found something that needs fixing that is not under warranty - and we can't release the car without fixing it due to liability".
It's happened to others on this forum. Taking one of these cars to a Chrysler dealer is about the dumbest thing you can do.
As to this 'airbag danger', I've had two effected airbags deploy on me since 2015. All I got was cuts from flying shrapnel - to my knees both times, oddly enough. I'll take my chances since I've been thru two collisions already. (One time was an 05 Crossfire, one was a rental vehicle for work. Both had Takata airbags.) A better resolution for you would be to deploy the airbag yourself, clean the dust up, and replace the cover on the wheel and go without the damn airbag. As I said, both times, my only (minor) injuries were from the damn airbag!
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Maybe the airbag saved you from more serious injuries. I think you are possibly putting lives at risk promoting the disabling of the air bags, it is also illegal to do this in most states or provinces.