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Carmakers Meet Today to Plan Takata Airbag Testing
Nine carmakers will meet in metro Detroit on Thursday to select a third-party engineering firm that can help determine why some Takata Corp. airbag inflators explode when activated, sources tell Automotive News.
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Nine carmakers will meet in metro Detroit on Thursday to select a third-party engineering firm that can help determine why some Takata Corp. airbag inflators explode when activated, sources tell Automotive News.
The group BMW, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota has recalled some 13 million vehicles in the U.S. since 2008 to replace faulty driver- and passenger-side Takata inflators.
But no one knows precisely what makes the devices fail. Until carmakers find an answer, analysts expect the recalls to expand.
AN's sources say today's meeting aims to work out how testing of recalled inflators will be conducted and how the effort will coordinate with Takata's own evaluation. Toyota, which proposed the alliance last week, says a coordinated effort should bring faster and more detailed results.
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