eBay bans airbag sales as concerns about faulty or counterfeit parts rise

eBay became the latest online retailer to ban the sale of airbags and many of their components. Aftermarket parts can be risky if they turn out to be fake or defective.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4928x3280+0+0/resize/4928x3280!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F23%2F29%2Fb7766e8b43ebb0a552f660716356%2Fgettyimages-875342536.jpg' alt='A car and its airbag are pictured after a frontal crash test with another car, without a safety belt buckled in the back seat, as part of France's Road Safety Commission's (Delegation a la Securite Routiere, DSR) campaign "Buckle your seat belt, be attached to life" on November 7, 2017 at the motor-racing track of Linas-Monthlery in Linas, south of Paris.'/><p>eBay became the latest online retailer to ban the sale of airbags and many of their components. Aftermarket parts can be risky if they turn out to be fake or defective.</p><p>(Image credit: BERTRAND GUAY)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5978124' />