Not only have all eight USA fatalities occurred in Honda vehicles, putting some drivers on edge, but also the recalls to replace Takata airbags have been needlessly complicated, segmented by region and component. The agency is now working the family, Takata and Honda to examine the vehicle in order to confirm that conclusion, he said. Japan-based Takata was fined $70 million in November by US regulators who said the company failed to properly notify automakers of the dangers its airbags posed. That means if Takata airbag inflators rupture during testing in a given model year for a given auto, NHTSA orders a recall for that particular year plus a few surrounding years if those vehicles have the same Takata inflators.
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The deal requires Takata, which has its North American headquarters in Auburn Hills, must phase out the use of a compound in air bag inflators – ammonium nitrate – that has come under criticism and that a majority of its competitors have stopped using. Officials believe humid conditions cause the propellant to explode with too much force, and NHTSA wants vehicles from 2008 or older that spent significant time in high-humidity areas such as the Gulf Coast state repaired first. The latest findings could result in the recall of several hundred thousand additional vehicles, officials said. The expanded Honda recalls alone involved 127,000 inflators in vehicles not previously recalled, the carmaker said. “Honda has sufficient replacement parts supplies to begin recall repairs of the added vehicles immediately, nationwide”, the company said in a statement.
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“We should have recall defect information reports from the three affected manufacturers processed and made public hopefully in the next couple of days”, Trowbridge said. Takata is the world’s largest air bag maker, and that would potentially add tens of millions of inflators to the recall rolls.
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Recycling collections are also affected and households are being urged to put out any additional recycling in untied carrier bags. This year they have warned that anyone putting out extra rubbish beside their wheelie bin will have to deal with it themselves.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced that Takata airbag recalls are finally being completed at a faster pace.
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The auto safety agency also said it named a former U.S. Justice Department official to oversee the massive recalls of airbags and the Japanese parts firm’s compliance with a settlement. This passenger front airbag recall expansion will include 17,990 vehicles already subject to the driver front airbag inflator safety recall announced on May 27, 2015.
