Enjoy Life. Rest Safe. Dearest Every Mile.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
We’d endure driving along, in addition to all of a abrupt the rider airbag would nigh off, leaving the rider unprotected.
A service attendant mentioned that the on-off switch had zip to produce alongside weight. It was based on the amount of H2O inwards a person’s body.
There is no alert almost this shut-off arrangement on the rider side visor. And, if you lot banking enterprise fit the owner’s manual, at that spot is zip almost this number inwards the opening section’s security precautions, although at that spot is fabric almost the speed in addition to forcefulness of airbag deployment. Later, embedded on page 42, at that spot is this advisory if you lot occur to plough to that page: “If the front end passenger’s spot cushion is wet, this may adversely comport on the mightiness to determine deployment. If the spot cushion is wet, the front end rider should halt sitting on the front end passenger’s seat. Wipe off H2O from the spot immediately, allow the spot dry out naturally in addition to thus banking enterprise fit the SRS airbag arrangement alert light.…”
Let’s tell you’ve never noticed this “feature.” You’re driving habitation from the beach on a crowded highway at lx mph alongside your solid unit of measurement inwards a total car, in addition to the rider airbag shuts off. Perhaps you lot run across the shut-off low-cal all of a abrupt illuminating. How precisely produce you lot halt the front end rider from sitting inwards the front end passenger’s seat? Perhaps you lot don’t fifty-fifty run across the shut-off advisory light, inwards that you lot are focused on the vacation traffic. In either case, your rider faces an unexpected hazard.
When I brought this to the attending of Subaru, at that spot was no recognition of the danger associated alongside the design. So imagine my involvement when I received the next yell upwards notice from Subaru this week:
SUBARU OF AMERICA, INC. has decided that a defect, which relates to motor vehicle safety, exists inwards sure enough 2012 model twelvemonth Impreza vehicles equipped alongside a capacitance-type occupant detection arrangement (ODS) inwards the front end rider seat.
You received this notice because our records dot that you lot currently ain i of these vehicles.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SAFETY DEFECT AND SAFETY HAZARD
When a correct front end spot rider plugs a jail cellphone telephone or other device into the accessory mightiness outlet or touches a metallic purpose of the vehicle that is grounded (such every bit the spot adjustment lever), the ODS may erroneously determine that the front end rider spot is unoccupied in addition to deactivate the front end rider air bag.
Should this happen, the Air Bag Warning Light volition illuminate in addition to the Passenger Air Bag Indicator volition illuminate “OFF”, providing a visual alert that the air handbag arrangement is non operating properly.
The rider air handbag volition non deploy nether these circumstances, increasing the gamble of injury to a front end spot rider inwards the consequence of a crash.
REPAIR
Subaru volition supercede the ODS Occupant Control Unit inwards your vehicle alongside a modified i at no terms to you.
Hmm, I wonder why i defect warrants a yell upwards when the other does not. As I noted dorsum inwards September:
Many Subaru owners are outdoor types who volition drive habitation afterward a jaunt to the beach or a hike inwards the moisture woods. How many of them know they are inwards danger when they produce so?
I similar my car. I only desire to "enjoy life, remain safe, in addition to beloved every mile." What does it have got to become this company's attention?