Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Toyota called revision 1.4 million cars for defects in the ‘airbag’ – Daily News – Lisbon

defective devices have been linked to the deaths of at least 11 people. The brand had another failure in ‘airbags’ last

The Japanese car manufacturer Toyota Motor announced Wednesday the call to review of 1.43 million vehicles worldwide affected by new problems detected in ‘airbags’ produced by the company Japanese Takata. In Portugal, Toyota Caetano announced the call to review the 950 car, model Prius, Prius Plug-in third generation and Lexus.

The models will return to the workshops are the Prius hybrid, Prius PHV and Lexus CT200h manufactured between 2008 and 2012.

most of the cars affected were sold in Japan (743,000), North America (495,000) and Europe (141,000), confirmed a spokesman for the agency Efe .

the global automotive leader detected small cracks in the inflator of the welds of ‘airbags’ side of the front seats, which could cause the separation of the device parts.

defective devices They were related to the deaths of at least 11 people in the United States and Malaysia.

This could take the inflator (the metal encapsulated which houses the ‘airbag’) out projected if activated ‘airbag’, thus representing a risk to the safety of the occupants of the vehicle, while Toyota does not have, so far, aware of any such incident, the source said.

the failure manufacture is different from other detected previously in the ‘airbag’ of Takata, which forced over 100 million cars of different brands worldwide to return to workshops.

defects in the manufacture of inflators make the safety device can be opened with excessive force and design fragments against the occupiers.

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