NHTSA Calls On Airbag Manufacturer ARC to Recall 67 Million Airbags for Safety Defect

Takata gets astir of the antagonistic attraction erstwhile it comes to airbag recalls, but a Tennessee shaper is facing calls to propulsion backmost 67 cardinal airbag inflators for hazard of rupture and explosion. There person already been injuries related to the issue, and General Motors has agreed to its ain callback to remedy the problem.

ARC manufactures airbag inflators recovered successful respective automakers’ vehicles, including BMW, Hyundai, GM, and Stellantis. GM agreed to callback astir a cardinal cars with the inflators, but ARC is resisting the pressure. It said that the inflators are not defective but besides noted that it would proceed to enactment with NHTSA connected the problem. 

This is not the archetypal clip NHTSA has investigated ARC, arsenic it archetypal got connected the government’s radar successful 2016 erstwhile a operator was killed successful a Hyundai equipped with its inflators. ARC’s investigating showed nary ruptures oregon problems, arsenic it pulled airbags from scrapped oregon different vehicles to observe. 

If ARC recalls the inflators, it volition beryllium connected the level of the U.S. information of the Takata airbag recall. These things tin look trivial, particularly since astir radical aren’t often successful car wrecks, but they tin rapidly crook unsafe if the airbag inflator is damaged oregon ruptured. The conveyance proprietor would person nary thought until there’s shrapnel flying astatine their face. That makes it a beauteous bully thought not to disregard airbag recalls. 

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