Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda recall 3.4m 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. Nissan's recall affects its X-Trail, Patrol, Almera, Almera Tino, Terrano II and Navara models built between 2000 and 2004, totalling 59,058 vehicles. 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. Japan's transport ministry, which received recall reports from the manufacturers, said the number of vehicles affected would reach 2.92 million. There was no explanation for the discrepancy in the total. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEe34OdU0EP8EHifaGx2RR2BR4CHw&url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/9986175/Toyota-Honda-Nissan-and-Mazda-recall-3.4m-cars-over-possible-faulty-airbag.html

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