Millions of cars added to air bag recall by automakers - KFDA

RECALL - Automakers have added more cars to their official lists of models recalled because of potentially dangerous Takata airbag inflators. Honda announced the addition of 350,000 in the U. S. BMW has added 420,100 also in the U. S. These additions are likely just the start. Eleven automakers in the U. S. have been caught in the Takata air bag recalls and it's likely more will add recall details as they figure them out. The action came as a follow up to last week's announcement by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it was nearly doubting the number of vehicles included in the Takata recall to 33. 8 million. Honda said that even though it knows the models involved and grand totals, it is now trying to find out whether they may have been registered in any of the states considered to have high humidity that could make the air bags deploy in a more... It will take "several weeks" to determine a more specific list, Honda said. Honda had previously recalled it's 350,000 vehicles to fix driver's side air bags. "The vast majority of Honda and Acura vehicles impacted by last week's announcement were already covered by past recalls or safety improvement campaigns," says Bruce Smith, a vice president for. Source: www.newschannel10.com