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