Chrysler Recalls Town & Country Minivans for Air Bag Defects

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Federal safety investigators announced that DaimlerChrysler has recalled 400,000 Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country minivans for faulty air bag systems. The air bag sensors may not deploy because of corrosion problems.

Turns out this another in a series of “climate” recalls where the manufacturer only recalls that are owned in certain states where the climate triggers the defective condition to occur. This is a good example.

Brass bushings on the front air bag sensors can corrode and crack on the front air bags, allowing water to enter the sensor. When that happens, things go wrong and the sensor may not work at all. That means the air bag may malfunction. It may work. It may not.

Because wintertime road salt is a heavy contributor to the corrosion risk, Chrysler is limiting the recall to just the 400,000 minivans that are owned in the “risk climate” where road salt is used more heavily. That’s the northern United States.

Of course, if you live in the southern US, Chrysler does the recall, and you move to the northern US, you get the corrosion — but not the recall repair. Result? Your front air bag system may deteriorate and malfunction later on. If you figure that out before your Chrysler minivan crashes, then Chrysler says they’ll replace the air bag sensor with a new one.

If you don’t find out in time, well, that tells you something about how much Chrysler cares for safety. So, no one should be surprised that although this is a recall, at the same time Chrysler is saying that this is not really a defect related to safety. Well, I guess that depends on whose family is in the van.

Big government hacks who care more about big business and its political contributions than public safety, those are the ones responsible for allowing this “climate” recall mess. Federal safety bureaucrats overruled department safety investigators and “climate recalls” mushroomed starting in 2006.

States covered by the recall: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Alaska and the District of Columbia.

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