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Honda Adds 400,000 Cars to Global Takata Airbag Recall
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Honda Motor Co. says it will recall roughly 400,000 more vehicles worldwide to replace Takata Corp.-supplied airbag inflators that might explode.
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Honda Motor Co. says it will recall roughly 400,000 more vehicles worldwide to replace Takata Corp.-supplied airbag inflators that might explode.
The company has already called back some 6 million vehicles in the U.S. alone to address the same problem with passenger-side inflators in high-humidity parts of the country. Earlier this week it agreed to extend that campaign nationally.
The company also is adding some driver-side inflators to the countrywide recall in America. On Tuesday it said it would recall about 700,000 of its 2001-2007 Acura and Honda models in Canada to replace their driver-side airbag inflators.
Honda estimates it will eventually attempt to repair about 13 million vehicles worldwide. It describes the latest expansion as a precautionary move, largely because the cause of the inflator failures is not yet clearly understood.
The new group of vehicles includes 2003 model Accord sedans, Fit small cars, Civic hybrids and CR-V small crossovers. Honda says 177,000 of the affected vehicles are in Japan, 100,000 in Europe and 70,000 in Asia Pacific.
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