Honda, BMW, others affected by Takata 1.4m Airbag recall

The United States government announced last Wednesday a recall of over a million vehicles from several auto companies following the discovery of a new and potentially dangerous flaw in the vehicles airbags.Some older vehicles made by five automakersAudi, BMW, Honda, Mitsubishi and Toyotowere recalled because of a malfunction in their airbags, which were manufactured by the Takata Corporation.According to the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), about 1.4 million vehicles may have the defect, but the agency estimates about one percent of them actually have it.Information from the NHTSA stated that the airbags contain Non-Azide Driver (NADI) inflators. This defect can cause the airbags inflator to explode or underinflate when it is deployedresulting in serious injury and even death. The NHTSA referred to the phenomenon as a very serious threat to safety.READ ALSO:Buying cars online or offline which is better and more trustworthy in NigeriaAccording to documents published by the NHTSA, the Takata Corporation wrote that it made 4.45 million of the NADI inflators between May 1, 1995 and August 31, 1999. Because the vehicles assembled with those inflators were released over two decades ago, the documents read, not all of the inflators are still in cars being driven today.The number of Takata NADI inflators for vehicles sold in the United States is substantially smaller but is not precisely known at this time, the documents read.Takata, which filed for bankruptcy in July 2017, has a history of having to recall vehicles due to faulty airbags. According to the NHTSA, these vehicles recently recalled for NADI inflators join another 41.6 million of others that were previously recalled after they were found to have been sold with faulty airbags that Tanaka manufactured.
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