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Report: Nissan Falsified Safety Inspections
Japanese regulators say Nissan Motor Co. used unqualified workers to do final safety checks on new vehicles and doctored the reports to appear legitimate, sources tell The Nikkei.
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Japanese regulators say Nissan Motor Co. used unqualified workers to do final safety checks on new vehicles and doctored the reports to appear legitimate, sources tell The Nikkei.
Japanese law requires the inspections and dictates they must be done by certified personnel. Nissan says it had about 300 such inspectors at the end of September and 20 more who had not yet taken an exam to be certified. Training and testing take about three months.
The country’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism discovered the cheating during a Sept. 18 check at one of Nissan’s factories. On Monday Nissan conceded it had been improperly testing vehicles for three years but did not say it had fabricated the inspection documents.
Nissan said on Monday it will recall and re-inspect 1.2 million cars, trucks, minivans and SUVs it made and sold in Japan over the past 36 months. The campaign will cover 24 models produced from October 2014.
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