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New Takata Airbag Failure May Broaden Recalls in Japan
Japan's transportation ministry tells reporters it may order Takata Corp. to broaden current recalls in Japan to replace airbag inflators that could explode when triggered.
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Japan's transportation ministry tells reporters it may order Takata Corp. to broaden current recalls in Japan to replace airbag inflators that could explode when triggered.
The ministry points to an inflator from a scrapped 2003 car that ruptured in a test earlier this month. The model, which wasn't identified, was not included in current recalls covering more than 2.5 million vehicles in Japan.
Bloomberg News says the latest inflator failure is the seventh in Japan among more than 700,000 such devices taken from scrapped cars and tested over the past two years. The first six inflators all came from cars included in the current recalls, according to the transportation ministry.
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