Honda Insight Airbag Problems

Airbag complaints by model year

Which parts fail

• Frontal
  2

Components named in complaints (front, side and curtain air bags, sensors and inflators).

Mileage when the problem started

• Under 25k
  1236%
• 25k–50k
  824%
• 50k–75k
  39%
• 75k–100k
  39%
• 100k–150k
  412%
• 150k+
  39%

What owners report

The contact owns a 2021 Honda Insight. The contact stated while driving at 55 mph, a deer jumped in front of the vehicle causing the contact to hit the deer but none of the air bags deployed. The contact mentioned that the automatic brakes were engaged during the incident. No one was injured and a police report was filed. The contact stated no warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was towed to a dealer and was awaiting an inspection. The manufacturer was not informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 6,500.

The contact's daughter owns a 2021 Honda Insight. The contact stated that while her daughter was driving at an undisclosed speed, the front driver's and passenger-side air bags suddenly deployed without impact. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact stated that the air bags cracked the front windshield and injured the driver's arm. The police arrived at the scene, but no police report was filed. The contact was unsure whether the driver had received medical attention. The contact's daughter had someone drive the vehicle to the residence. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or dealer. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 150,000.

The car was last driven and parked at about 8:30pm local time. At around noon the next day, we noticed that the dashboard in the vicinity of the passenger airbag was melted with an approximately 12-inch hole. There was soot staining the interior of the vehicle, and the windshield was burned and cracked above the hole in the dashboard.

I was driving on the freeway driving approx 70 mph when i was involved in a near head on collision from another car that had lost control and spun around into me. And the air bags did not deploy causing my head to hit the driver side pillar and i have shoulder and lower back pain and right knee pain

Takata recall.... I received the recall notice by us mail and the date on the letter was March 2016. It is now feb almost March 2017, 1 year later and every time I go to the dealer to have this corrected. They state to me that I have to wait till I get a letter in mail saying that the parts are in and I can bring my car in for repair. It has been a year! Really, I could have died by now because of this recall and no one seems to care about this... I feel this is a law suit waiting to happen and believe me, I have left my family instructions for just that if I am in an accident and airbag is deployed and I die. This is completely unacceptable when it comes to peoples safety, you have recalled the item associated with the vehicle and then you cant fix it???? So when do I hear about my parts being in and this getting fixed, hopefully it is before I die because of it! I would like to know! …

Takata recall. I received a letter dated March 2016 and was told that this recall would be taken care of in the summer of 2016. I was also told that alternative transportation could be provided but that I would have to pay out of pocket for the rental and be reimbursed. I would be broke by now and still waiting to be contacted to have my vehicle serviced. When are these vehicles going to be corrected? Why have all the other gas hog popular cars been done already? Why am I still driving a deathtrap?

The Honda Insight 2013 apparently has defects in the oil consumption level. I was driving my car a month ago with my oil service renewed completely at a dealershop and suddenly a month later the car started to show me signs of (oil change need to repair) and an emission system signal on the front LED screen inside the car. I knew at the moment it was not my fault for not putting the oil on time but it was the car's oil consumption level I know this by experience because on the other cars it does not happen but the Honda Insight does. It also made a large clunk noise which meant that I had to put more oil inside the car to keep the car from not functioning anymore. There needs to be a recall for this type of vehicle because I feel like I am not the only person that has this type of problem.

My car was hit at 60mph, from a run away car fleeing the police, on the front passenger side. My car then flipped onto the driver side rotated 180 degree, rolled over and slid 100ft to stopped on the passenger side. My car stopped with two wheels in the air. The major complaint is only the passenger curtain airbags deployed. The passenger side airbags, driver side airbags, and driver curtain airbags did not deploy. My injuries were glass in my eye, seat belt restraint injuries, neck & back pain. I would like to file a complaint that the passenger side airbags, driver side airbags and driver side curtain airbags did not deploy during the accident.

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