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GM Continues Effort to Avoid Takata Airbag Recall
General Motors Co. is hoping for the fourth consecutive year to be excused from recalling more than 6 million vehicles fitted with Takata airbag inflators that could explode in a crash.
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General Motors Co. is hoping for the fourth consecutive year to be excused from recalling more than 6 million vehicles fitted with Takata airbag inflators that could explode in a crash, the Associated Press reports.
GM has again petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for an exemption from the agency’s multi-year recall program. The complex campaign involves as many as 90 million frontal airbag inflators installed in hundreds of models by 13 carmakers.
GM argues that the Takata inflators in its vehicles are sufficiently unique to make replacement unnecessary. The company also notes that there have been no reports that the suspected devices have misfired in roughly 67,000 normal deployments involving its vehicles.
AP says a forced recall would cost GM $1.2 billion. NHTSA hasn’t yet ruled on any of the carmaker’s petitions, the first of which was filed in 2016, according to the news service.
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