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