Showing posts with label recall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recall. Show all posts
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Honda Expands Airbag Recall More Than 800 000 Cars In U S Total
Honda says drivers-side airbags in many of its 2001 and 2002 Honda and Acura vehicles could deploy with too much force, resulting in injury or death.
Tough guys will say "Hey, I can take a punch"...but thats not what Hondas talking about here. The force involved could shatter the inflator casing and send metal fragments flying through the airbag cushion material and into...well, you and your passengers.
Same basic principle as a grenade.
Honda says its aware of a total of 14 incidents, with one fatality.
This is phase three of this recall. It began sixteen months ago with 4,000 cars, had 436,000 added to it in July 2009 and today 378,758 cars join the list.
Full details are in the official Honda news release.
Even when working properly, airbags are, as now-retired (damn!) Car and Driver Editor at Large Patrick Bedard once noted, the only safety device in our history that comes with a label warning that you could be killed using it properly. A decade ago, he wrote a series of columns about them before finally giving up. Heres the one thats been preserved online. If you have both children and a car with airbags, please...please read it.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Toyota recall 2 8 million cars
The measure affects brand to 2.77 million vehicles from 13 different models that can present problems in the steering system. One of the component parts can wear when you steer to the limit and repeatedly at low speeds.
Of these cars, 620,000 may also have problems with the cooling system of the electric hydraulic pump. In these cases the fault is due to cables that may have been damaged in the production process and if they break into short circuits can generate the hybrid propulsion system.
Although the recall is global, the most affected country with 1.5 million units involved is Japan. The main models that will be reviewed are the Prius (the most affected by the problem in the pump), the Corolla, the Isis and Wish (manufactured between 2000 and 2011).
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