Saturday, February 20, 2016

Mazda calls to review 1.9 million vehicles – Daily News – Lisbon

Manufacturer is trying to mislead ‘airbags’ defective

The Japanese automaker Mazda Motor announced today the call revision 1.9 million cars worldwide, including 210,000 in Japan, due to ‘airbags’ defective produced by the company Japanese Takata.

the six models affected so manufactured between 2006 and 2014, and between them figure the Mazda6 (known in Japan and other Asian countries as Atenza), the commercial truck Titan and Bongo utility.

This new call to review adds to the millions of cars that were forced to return to workshops worldwide due to a technical fault detected in ‘airbags’ of Takata, a problem which, incidentally, led the authorities to impose the company a million dollar fine.

in addition to the Mazda, other manufacturers such as Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Honda, Ford, Chrysler Group and BMW announced calls for review of its vehicles due to this defect.

the failures inflators (the metal encapsulated which houses the ‘airbag’) makes the safety device can be opened with excessive force to the point of designing fragments.

This defect has been linked to the deaths of at least eight people in the United States and in Malaysia.

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