Ten years after recalls began, thousands of you in the U.S.—or around 62,307 to be exact—are still driving cars with the worst of the Takata airbags, the ones that could explode and kill you or your passenger in what otherwise might be a simple fender bender. This is insane!
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Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know. And just a heads up, there are a lot of multi-million dollar settlements and fines raining down on the auto industry today.
Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
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Take your car in for the airbag recall if it applies to you! Takata started 2018 by issuing a recall for another 3.3 million airbag inflators, while automakers are literally going door-to-door telling drivers to get their car fixed if it needs the fix. Meanwhile, another person has died due to a defective airbag…
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Ford today said that it would tell 2,900 owners of certain 2006 Ford Rangers to stop driving their cars immediately. Owners need to bring them in for fixes after they’d previously confirmed that a second death had been linked to a bad Takata air bag, according to Reuters.
The largest automotive recall in United States history is being expanded once again by Takata, the Detroit Free Press announced. Takata is adding 3.3 million airbag inflators due to a faulty explosive chemical used in the ignition of the airbag.
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Another person has been killed by an exploding Takata air bag inflator, bringing the total fatalities linked to the defect to 20.
Humans are historically and foolishly bad at heeding a warning in a letter, going to a shop and having their car repaired for free. That’s called “getting a recall done,” and people are so terrible at it that Honda employees are going to homes telling customers to take their potentially explosive Takata airbags…
Defective airbags from Takata have been linked to 18 deaths and hundreds of injuries, but more than 10 million vehicles still remain unrepaired at this point, according to a report issued Friday. It’s an unfortunate situation—one that Honda’s now trying to reconcile by tracking down affected owners through Facebook.
The Japanese corporate world is getting rocked by the country’s third-largest steelmaker, Kobe Steel, which admitted last week to falsely labeling products supplied to over 500 companies across the world, including the largest automakers. While the extent of the damage is currently unclear—no reports of safety issues…
More than 25 percent of used vehicles sold at eight CarMax locations across the U.S. contained safety defects that weren’t repaired, despite being under recall, according to a review by car safety advocates. Some of the cars included unrepaired Takata airbags, which have been linked to numerous deaths.
The Takata airbag recall is the largest automotive safety recall in history. It’s almost guaranteed that either you or somebody you know has owned a car with a Takata airbag inflator. Here’s a video that explains what’s so dangerous about them, and why it should terrify you.
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Honda just confirmed that in June of 2016, someone died while fixing a 2001 Honda Accord after a faulty Takata airbag went off. The company says it’s the 11th confirmed death in the U.S. associated with Takata’s defective inflators. It’s also a reminder that working near airbags—particularly those known to violently…
