The ongoing recall of airbag inflators that could detonate and harm riders has added another 1.7 million vehicles to its list, from a wide variety of manufacturers.
Subaru, Tesla, BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler Vans, Mercedes, and Ferrari were altogether incorporated into the most recent recall from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Friday morning. The recall is a piece of a bigger recall of Takata airbags, which can fling shrapnel on the off chance that they detonate in the wake of breaking down after some time because of heat and humidity. The issue has brought about no less than 23 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
The list of new recalls is a long one and drivers are urged to go to the NHTSA website and enter their vehicle identification number to check whether their car is influenced. Be that as it may, here’s a best line rundown of how significantly the different automakers are influenced by the most recent round:
Subaru
The organization is recalling 826,144 vehicles, including different Forester, Legacy, and Outback models from 2010 to 2014.
Mercedes
Somewhere in the range of 288,779 vehicles from model years 2010 to 2017 are influenced.
Volkswagen
The German automaker is recalling 119,394 vehicles, including Audi and Passat models from 2015 to 2017.
BMW
A little more than 266,000 vehicles from the model years 2000 to 2004 and 2007 to 2015 are being recalled.
Daimler Vans
Another 159,689 vehicles made between 2015 to 2017 are incorporated.
Tesla
Got a Model S from 2014 to 2016? It could be one of the 68,763 vehicles recalled from the organization.
Ferrari
The high-end auto manufacturers is recalling 11,176 cars, from an assortment models from the 2014 to 2018 model years.
The Takata recall is one of the biggest in U.S. history and is being staged with automakers. Last September, Honda and Acura recalled 1.4 million vehicles for the issue and in December, Toyota and Lexus recalled 65,000 vehicles. Ford has previously consented to pay $300 million to settle customers’ economic misfortune claims associated with the Takata recall.
As per the NHTSA, there are 50 million flawed Takata airbags in 37 million U.S. vehicles.
