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BMW Finds a New Batch of Takata Airbag Inflators to Recall
BMW AG says it will recall about 230,000 vehicles in the U.S. with airbag systems that may have been repaired with defective Takata Corp. airbag inflators.
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BMW AG says it will recall about 230,000 vehicles in the U.S. with airbag systems that may have been repaired with defective Takata Corp. airbag inflators.
The recall aims to find vehicles that were fitted with airbags supplied by Petri AG. Takata acquired the German steering wheel supplier and early airbag developer 17 years ago.
If those Petri systems were deployed in a crash and then replaced, the new airbags would include a type of Takata inflator that is already being recalled, BMW tells Bloomberg News. Roughly 100 million defective Takata inflators are being replaced worldwide by 19 carmakers because the devices could explode in a crash.
BMW says many of the affected cars are part of previously launched Takata inflator recalls. But is notes that some are older models not covered by those campaigns. The new callback brings the number BMW inflator recalls in the U.S. to 1.57 million devices.
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