on Wednesday, came the message that Toyota is calling back 5.8. million cars because of problems with the air bags.
the 20,000 of the cars that are now revoked is Norwegian, writes E24. The cars are of the types of Yaris, Hilux and Auris. It applies to models manufactured between may 2000 and november 2001, and between april 2006 and December of 2014.
the Airbag from the japanese Takata has a bug which makes that it can seep into moisture, which in turn makes that they blow themselves up on a wrong way. In the worst case, they can explode and shoot out deadly splinters.
Passenger-scandal
This is not the first time Toyota have to recall cars due to airbags from japanese Takala. In the last year had airbagprodusenten recognize that it is a failure of the product, and only in the united STATES has Takala recalled almost 70 million airbags installed in u.s. cars since 2014.
the deployment of the airbag should have claimed 11 lives and over 100 injuries worldwide.
The latest victim was a woman in the 50′s that crashed in Los Angeles at the end of september, writes CNN. The air bag blew himself up in the right way, and the woman died.
WAS INJURED: Stephanie Erdman is one of the around 100 people who have been injured by a defective air bag manufacturer Takata. Here witnesses she in a hearing of the Senate transportkomité about the product, in Washington november in 2014.
Photo: ALEX WONG / Afp
– Toyota takes the cost
Toyota Norway says that they want to be on the safe side.
the Cars have a potential error, and therefore, we want to be ahead. We do what we can to get called into the cars as soon as we have the parts available. We take the cost for the customer, ” says manager Espen Olsen at Toyota Norway to E24.
This is the largest tilbakekallelsen ever. Earlier this month had the Toyota is also recalling over 1400 cars in Norway by the type of the Prius as a result of a possible error with the parkeringspremsen. When was 340.000 Prius cars recalled globally.
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