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NHTSA Opens Investigation Into Defective Airbags Following Numerous Recalls
(Listener42)Just a day after Toyota re-issued a 2013 recall because shrapnel could fly toward passengers when the airbag deploys, federal regulators opened an investigation into whether the airbags...
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Mazda, Honda And Nissan Issue Recalls Of Nearly 3 Million Vehicles Related To...
(Listener42) Nearly 3 million more Nissan, Mazda and Honda vehicles have been recalled related to potentially faulty, and painful, airbag deployment issues that are currently under investigation by the...
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GM Halts Sale Of Chevy Cruze Over Airbag Concerns; Recall Possible
General Motors is once again telling dealers to stop sales of existing inventory of the Chevy Cruze, which has already been the subject of a recall this year over drive shaft issues. This time, the car...
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Honda Expands Airbag Defect Recall To Include Vehicles In California
(mr.hodgson) If you live in California and you drive a Honda vehicle, listen up, because the car maker expanded its recall for potentially faulty airbag deployment issues by nearly 500,000 in your...
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Nissan Expands Recall For Vehicles With Possibly Defective Takata Airbags
(Russ Swift) In a year marred by vehicle recalls, Nissan remained relatively under the radar with fewer than 500,000 cars recalled. But that changed on Saturday when the car company expanded a previous...
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Land Rover Recalls 40,000 Luxury SUVs For Passenger Airbag Issues
(Eric Spiegel)Safety is a priority for car manufacturers, if it wasn’t there likely wouldn’t be recalls at all. But since it is, the recalls keep coming, this time in the form of 40,000 Jaguar Land...
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Can’t Make It Up: GM Recalls Vans For Explosion Risk, Fiat Recalls Cars For...
(funky_abstract)The only time I want to see a car blow up is in an action movie where it’s filled with bad guys. I don’t want to see a van driving down the highway burst into flames because of a...
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Chrysler Recalls 184,000 SUVs For Same Airbag Issues Responsible For Ford...
(Listener42) It certainly hasn’t been the best year for vehicle airbags. In the spring Honda, Toyota and other vehicle manufactures recalled millions of cars because the safety devices were found to be...
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Honda To Audit Reporting Inaccuracies After Third Takata Airbag Death Linked...
(frankieleon) Car manufacturers are required under law to report death and injury claims to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Those figures allow the regulatory agency to identify...
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Toyota Expands Defective Airbag Recall To 247,000 Additional Vehicles In High...
(Eric Spiegel) Just days after it was revealed that defective Takata-produced airbags had been linked to three deaths in the United States, Toyota Motor Corp. expanded its recall of vehicles that may...
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NHTSA Urges Owners Of Vehicles With Defective Airbags To Get Them Fixed, Even...
(Listener42) Federal safety regulators are asking millions of vehicle owners to immediately fix their defective airbags, but it may do little to actually remedy the problem. With more than 14 million...
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Audi Recalls 850,000 Vehicles For Glitch That Could Prevent Airbag Deployment
(dirtyblueshirt)Airbag woes continued for car manufacturers around the world today as Audi announced it would recall 850,000 vehicles with possibly defective airbags. The Wall Street Journal reports...
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Maker Of Airbags Linked To 8M Recalled Vehicles Used Unusual Chemical...
(I Am Rob)Takata, the Japanese/German auto-parts maker, that supplied airbags used in millions of recalled vehicles employed an unusual explosive chemical to inflate the safety devices, which may have...
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First Class-Action Suit Filed Against Takata Over Airbag Defects
Takata Corp. faces its first potential class-action lawsuit related to defective airbags. With nearly 8 million vehicles recalled, 30 injuries and at least four deaths linked to potentially defective...
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Used Car Dealer Suspending Sales Of Vehicles Affected By Takata Airbag Recall
(smcgee)Although it’s not illegal for used car dealers to sell recalled vehicles, one of the nation’s largest pre-owned dealers announced it would suspend the sale of cars with the potentially deadly...
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Nissan Recalls 1,848 Infiniti Vehicles Over Defective Takata Airbags
(John)The number of vehicles recalled related to defective Takata airbags increased by more than 1,000 vehicles Friday, as Nissan issued a recall of luxury Infiniti vehicles. According to a National...
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Audi Recalls Nearly 102,000 Vehicles For Airbag Deployment Issues
(funky_abstract)Fresh off a recall of nearly a million vehicles, Audi issued another call back of nearly 102,000 cars for an airbag problem that could prevent the frontal safety devices from deploying....
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NHTSA Gives Honda Until December 15 To Turn Over All Communications About...
(frankieleon) Federal regulators have increased their scrutiny over Honda’s actions related to the millions of vehicles recalled because of Takata airbag defects. Two days after the National Highway...
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Takata Allegedly Knew About Airbag Defect 10 Years Ago, Senators Urge...
With 16 million vehicles recalled, a number of lawsuits and several investigations already underway related to defective Takata-produced airbags, lawmakers are urging the Department of Justice to open...
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Takata, Honda Subjects Of Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Secret Airbag...
(Listener42) It was only a matter of time before Takata, the company responsible for the deadly airbag defect that resulted in nearly 16 million vehicles being recalled, faced a lawsuit regarding the...
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