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New Takata Airbag Inflator Flaw Prompts Honda Recall
Honda Motor Co. is recalling about 500 of its 2016 model CR-V small crossovers in the U.S. because their Takata Corp.-supplied driver’s frontal airbag inflators could explode when triggered by a crash.
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Honda Motor Co. is recalling about 500 of its 2016 model CR-V small crossovers in the U.S. because their Takata Corp.-supplied driver’s frontal airbag inflators could explode when triggered by a crash.
The tiny callback suggests Takata continues to struggle with manufacturing problems implicated in inflator explosions that have killed eight people, all of them driving Honda vehicles.
Only 30 of the affected vehicles in the new recall have been sold to customers, all of whom have been notified, according to Honda. The company ordered the callback after an inflator made at Takata’s factory in Monclova, Mexico, exploded in a batch test at the facility.
Since 2008 a dozen carmakers have recalled more than 40 million cars worldwide—half of them in the U.S.— to replace potentially defective Takata airbag inflators.
Long exposure to high heat and humidity appears to be a factor that make a failure more likely. But investigators still can’t pinpoint the underlying cause. The newly produced devices involved in the new Honda recall don’t fit that profile.
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