| Are you in the market for a used car? If not, | | | | |
| I can bet that you or someone you care for | | | | Insurance companies reimburse for repair |
| will be in the next 2 years. If so, it is | | | | costs of damaged cars, this includes airbag |
| essential that you grasp onto the tip I will | | | | replacement. However, immoral repair shops |
| discuss through this article. | | | | are pocketing the money, and sending the car |
| | | | back to the streets with dummy, or damaged |
| A total of 2.5 million cars get into | | | | airbags. Some repair shops got to the extent |
| accidents each year, out of which about a | | | | of filling the airbag space with peanut bags. |
| million goes back on the road. The immoral | | | | There are salvage yards, and auto part |
| drive for profit leads some car dealerships | | | | companies that are into the business of |
| to hide, or pretend not to know anything | | | | selling fake airbags. Lets look at it from a |
| about an accident that the car got involved | | | | different angle, a salvage yard has parts |
| in. the consequences vary from corroding | | | | that came from an accident, now the airbag |
| electrical components, airbags that will not | | | | already failed to deploy once, what are the |
| inflate in god forbid, an accident you get | | | | odds that it work the next time. Unless are |
| into. Never say that a scam will never happen | | | | gifted with x-ray vision, there is no way for |
| to you, because everyone, including me is an | | | | you see through the airbag cover. Autocheck, |
| ideal target for such a scam if negligence | | | | and Carfax reports include information that |
| was to take place. | | | | were collected from police reports, which |
| | | | describes the accident, and whether the |
| Statics showed that about 4 percent cars that | | | | airbag was deployed or not. |
| are repaired and sent back to the streets | | | | |
| have a damaged, or a dummy airbag. Hence, | | | | The most powerful weapon you can use when |
| only a couple of states have regulated the | | | | buying a car is researching the history of |
| matter of airbag replacement. Larry Gamache, | | | | the vehicle identification number, VIN. Ask |
| communications director at Carfax, said | | | | for the VIN before you even consider taking |
| "Airbag systems are expensive to replace so | | | | the car for a test drive, and with the |
| to keep costs down and profits up, scam | | | | Internet you can in a matter of seconds pull |
| artists may cut corners", he continued by | | | | out the history of the car. Hence, if you |
| saying" Victims of airbag fraud have found | | | | are in the market for a car, I suggest you |
| their airbags stuffed with everything from | | | | buy a month worth of unlimited checks, and |
| rags to old shoes or nothing at all. However, | | | | have carfax and auto check work to protect |
| most victims of airbag fraud may never know | | | | you and your beloved ones. |
| until it's too late." | | | | |