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