Q: I bought a jeep patriot new in 2014 in march of 2015 I was involved in an accident where a older man pulled out in front
of me as I was going 35-40 mph. there was no airbag deployment I called Chrysler they sent someone to the shop it was in and said there was no problem I traded the vehicle off after the damage was repaired due to being afraid to put my family in it with no airbags today two years later I received a recall for no airbag deployment is there anything I can do to recoup some of the beating I took from trading a 10 month old vehicle with a bad car fax in?
A:
If there had been air bag deployment your vehicle may have been totaled anyway--have to add to the damages cost of replacing the airbag(s). Your fear of that didn't make it unusable. Also, if the hit was not dead center or within 7 degrees of top dead center, the airbag may not deploy. So depending on how the crash happened, a perfect airbag would be designed to only go off at the correct andgle and wouldn't go off at another angle.
Unless Jeep knew of this before your wreck, unless you want to spend $100,000 on the cost of an airbag case I don't see it.
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