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GM Wants 1-Year Delay in Starting Expanded Takata Recall
General Motors Co. is asking for a one-year delay before beginning to recall 980,000 pickup trucks and SUVs in the U.S. to replace passenger-side frontal airbag inflators that could explode in a crash, Automotive News reports.
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General Motors Co. is asking for a one-year delay before beginning to recall 980,000 pickup trucks and SUVs in the U.S. to replace passenger-side frontal airbag inflators that could explode in a crash, Automotive News reports.
The delay would enable GM to complete research to determine specifically why the devices misfire and thereby clarify which ones truly need replacing. Affected models are 2007-2012 model Chevrolet Silverado fullsize pickup trucks and Tahoe and Suburban SUVs, Cadillac Escalade SUVs and GMC Sierra pickups and Yukon SUVs.
The Takata Corp. inflators are among about 35 million devices that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ordered to be replaced between now and 2019 by more than a dozen carmakers. All devices lack a drying agent that would help prevent their propellant from deteriorating when exposed to heat and humidity.
Carmakers already have recalled some 29 million driver-side Takata inflators that could misfire.
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