RECALL LIST: US government warns 4.7 million car owners to get air bags fixed - The Denver Channel
DETROIT - A potential safety crisis over defective air bags widened Monday as the U. S. government issued an urgent plea to more than 4. 7 million people to get their cars fixed. The inflator mechanisms in the air bags can rupture, causing metal fragments to fly out when the bags are deployed in crashes. They also say more than 20 million vehicles in the U. S. are equipped with the faulty air bags. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration warned people whose cars have been recalled during the past two years for faulty air bag inflators to take them to dealers right away. The warning covers cars made by Toyota, Honda, Mazda, BMW, Nissan, General Motors and Ford. Toyota issued the latest recall Monday, covering passenger air bags in 247,000 older model vehicles including the Lexus SC, Corolla, Matrix, Sequoia and Tundra. Like many of the other recalls, the Toyota recall covers vehicles in South Florida, along the Gulf Coast, in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the U. S. Virgin Islands, Guam,Saipan and American Samoa -- all areas that have high absolute humidity. Toyota, in documents posted on the NHTSA website, said the company and Takataare still trying to pinpoint the cause of the rupture and to gauge the influence of high absolute humidity. Source: www.thedenverchannel.com
