NHTSA Investigating Two Airbag Ruptures with Non-Takata Inflators - Car and Driver (blog)
The inflators, produced by ARC Automotive of Knoxville, Tennessee, are not related to the rupturing Takata inflators that affect 32 million cars and have killed eight people. NHTSA said it first received a complaint in December of a driver’s-side airbag rupturing on a 2002 Chrysler Town & Country and dismissed the case as a “single isolated event” until Kia in June reported a lawsuit involving another ARC inflator... Instead, it supplies inflators to other airbag suppliers (in these cases, to Key Safety Systems for Chrysler and to Delphi for Kia). NHTSA said the Town & Country airbag had something blocking the inflator’s exhaust gases when it deployed, causing “. Source: blog.caranddriver.com
