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Takata doubling production of replacement airbag inflators
Takata is pushing hard to increase its global production of replacement airbag inflators to 900,000 units, while automakers begin looking elsewhere. Takata is scrambling to fill the massive ...
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Takata airbag inflator recall expanded to estimated 33.8 million vehicles [UPDATE]
Takata is launching a huge expansion of its inflator recall in the US to cover an estimated 33.8 million vehicles. UPDATE: NHTSA has officially announced the expansion of the Takata airbag ...
One more death in US, the 28th, is attributed to Takata air bag inflators that can spew shrapnel
DETROIT (AP) — Another death has been linked to dangerous Takata air bag inflators by U.S. regulators, the 28th in the United ...
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Takata Airbag Updates and Recall Guide
In addition, at least 400 people in the U.S. allegedly have been injured by exploding Takata air bag inflators. Safety regulators say that even minor crashes can result in exploding Takata air ...
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Ram Recalls Older Trucks Over Airbag Inflators That May Rupture
In a similar fashion to Takata's deadly airbag inflators, the ones produced by Joyson Safety Systems for the subject Ram pickup trucks may cause injuries or worse. Thankfully for affected ...
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BMW recalls 1.3 million vehicles that may have Takata airbag inflators
A small number of vehicles in the recall may have Takata inflators if the owner changed the steering wheel, the Chinese regulatory body said. The inflator can explode when the airbag deploys ...
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Japanese airbag maker Takata admits defects forcing the recall of 34m vehicles
Last week, Japanese carmakers Honda and Daihatsu said they would recall some five million cars globally to replace the potentially deadly airbag inflators made by Takata. Toyota and Nissan also ...
The Drive7mon
Massive BMW 3 Series Takata Airbag Recall Targets Owner-Modded E90s
In 2015, BMW, among many other automakers, issued recalls for swaths of vehicles containing Takata airbags with potentially lethal inflators. Since then, countless BMWs have had their airbags ...
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TAKATA AIRBAGS
Takata and its U.S. entity TK Holdings Inc filed for bankruptcy in June last year after recalling more than 100 million of its air bag inflators worldwide as they could inflate with too much force ...
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GM recalls nearly 900 vehicles with Takata air bag inflators, blames manufacturing problem
DETROIT--General Motors is recalling nearly 900 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada with Takata air bag inflators that could explode and hurl shrapnel in a crash. The recall covers certain Chevrolet ...
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U.S. agency to watch unrecalled Takata inflators after one blows apart, injuring a driver in Chicago
DETROIT--U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments ...