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NHTSA Probes Hyundai-Kia Airbag Failures
U.S. safety officials have opened an investigation into airbag systems that may fail in as many as 425,000 Hyundai and Kia vehicles.
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U.S. safety officials have opened an investigation into airbag systems that may fail in as many as 425,000 Hyundai and Kia vehicles.
The systems have been implicated in four fatalities and six injury crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Hyundai-Kia suspects an electrical fault in the computer control unit supplied by ZF Friedrichshafen AG.
In late February Hyundai recalled 155,000 of its 2011 Hyundai Sonatas after finding that an electric short circuit could cause the controller to fail.
NHTSA says its probe will determine whether other carmakers may have used the same ZF control unit and experienced similar crash failures.
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