Toyota reissued the recall as an airbag in a Nissan X-Trail SUV ruptured and injured a passenger although it was previously inspected and found to be safe.
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Toyota has made the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism here aware that it has issued a recall on 1,612,670 vehicles spanning some of its most popular models including the Corolla and Vitz models, the automaker said Wednesday.
The supplier has been at the center of a safety crisis over its air bags with ammonium nitrate inflators, and the unofficial number of vehicles recalled around the world has hit 40 million.
While the new recall also includes vehicles in Italy, Britain and Spain, it doesn’t include any in the USA, Autoblog noted.
At the heart of the matter are faulty airbag inflators, which when exposed to humidity can cause an airbag to deploy with too much force, potentially injuring the driver and passengers.
Toyota has announced almost 15 million recalls in relation to problem Takata inflators worldwide, almost three million each in the US and Japan, spokesperson Kayo Doi said.
In the USA alone more than 19 million vehicles have been recalled as a result of Takata’s faulty air bags and the possibility exists that millions more may be recalled in the future. People have died as a result of these airbags, but for the latest recall, there have been no reports of injuries.
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Toyota, Ford Motor Co. of the US, Japanese automakers Honda Motor Co. and Nissan have decided not to use Takata inflators in vehicles under development.
