Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda recall 2.93m cars over possible faulty airbag - Telegraph.co.uk

Toyota is to recall 1.73m cars worldwide, including 76,000 in the UK. Honda will recall 1.14m in total, Nissan 480,000 and Mazda 45,463. All cited the same malfunction - incorrect inflation of passenger side airbags. A spokesman for Toyota said its recall was based on five cases of airbags inflating incorrectly in Japan in the US, none of which had resulted in injury. He said the UK recall affects cars registered between November 2000 and March 2004, carrying a plate number between X and 54. Models affected include Corolla, Picnic and Camry, he added. "Anyone affected will be contacted in the next few weeks," he said, adding that the repair, if needed, is expected to take around an hour and a half. Japanese auto parts maker Takata said it supplied the airbags to Toyota and other carmakers. Honda, Japan's second-biggest carmaker, said the faulty airbags can over-inflate and burst, spraying potentially deadly metal shards. The problem crept in because of two human errors during production. A worker forgot to turn on the switch for a system weeding out defective products and parts were improperly stored, which exposed them to humidity, a Honda spokeswoman told the Associated Press news agency. "We cannot be completely certain that the driver's airbag inflator in the vehicles being added to this recall at this time will perform as designed," the company said in statement. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEc2nQEmZkR2U1LZXCeNPKTHzyZqA&url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/9986175/Toyota-Honda-Nissan-and-Mazda-recall-2.93m-cars-over-possible-faulty-airbag.html

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