Toyota's Respone to Aftermarket Grab Handle

Mind your own business YOUR opinion carries about as much water as the OP as does mine.

 

honestly, next step is to hit up NTSB?
it's automatic what an OEM would tell ya all.

 

this is idiotic. The airbag will deploy just fine. It pushes the door seal/weatherstrip and the edge of the a-pillar cover apart and comes out through the gap. There is no reason the handle would change any of that. Airbags deploy with incredible force, no amount of a-pillar plastic, even if it was captured by the door itself, would prevent it from deploying.

You made a thread before about this same shit and then made another one, with a useless email from Toyota that says nothing surprising or of any use to anyone. Couldn't you just have added that info to the other thread?

Time for containment threads?

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u50lS_SxiSU

 

Did anybody else think this part was hilarious.... As in, if you tell us that you might mod your vehicle, we wont forget... we promise.

 

What a boring and paranoid life you must live. If you have such a problem with it don't buy it. If you bought it and are this scared throw it in the trash. If you're just trying to save someone hit up the NTSB. Posting trash here isn't going to move the needle or help you.

 

Isn't this a risk that we take when we mod our vehicles? It is also pretty obvious that Toyota will not be liable for anything aftermarket related, especially for this specific topic.

Do I risk airbag possibly not deploying correctly due to an aftermarket grab handle?
Yes? Buy and install the mod.
No? Don't by and move on to the next mod on the list.
Undecided? Wait until more proven evidence to tip the scales towards your purchase decision.

Going to be hard to proceed in verifying and convincing others on how safe these handles are, with just examples from prior Toyotas. And i don't think anyone with a handle will be willing to go and deploy their own airbags for the sake of science.

Maybe a lot of this stems from the general distrust users are having with KTJO.

 

the Grab Handle makes it safer for me to get in/out of the cab.

 

You can argue all you want, but there is no getting around the fact that this mod could potentially affect the airbag safety system as it was designed to operate. Maybe it will and then again maybe it won't! Like with anything in life, make your choices that align with your risk tolerance level. I for one have never understood this mod; the steering wheel works just fine if I need a little help getting up into the truck. Been doing this my whole life and have not broken or affected a steering wheel yet.

 

This thread
*face palm*
Slit your own throat

 

You can bet "Toyota" has monitors watching forums of their product.

 

the 1 - 2 punch for the NTSB, possible air bag deployment and driver view obstruction, now?
Let's put her out of Business! that's not even thinking the thousands of Grab Handle owners who already own it. It's for their/your Safety, Uncle Sam is watching, able, ready and willing to step in, who else but the Feds knowing whats bad for us unknowing?

let's get this thread to the top of Google and Yahoo's search engines result list

 

I’ve only used the grab handle in my 2nd gen once. I tried it and it feels so awkward.

 

"Mommy!!!!! Katie made a grab handle for the truck!!!!!"

I hope you've also reported the steering wheel Toyota emblem cover that is being sold that will become a flying logo of death when the air bag deploys, too.

Just when I think I've seen it all.............................

 

Canned corporate response. I wouldn't expect anything else from Toyota.

 

does she sell phone holder mounts that attaches to the driver side pillar?

 

Why are everybody's ovaries sore this morning??

 

Dude I try to keep my mouth shut, but you are a passive aggressive neurotic.

 

The look of having a handle on the passenger side and not the driver side really bothers me lol. I’m all about the looks btw

 

Your momma’s so fat she eats wheat thicks