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Toyota Adds 247,000 Vehicles to Takata Airbag Recall
Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling another 247,000 cars, pickup trucks and SUVs to replace Takata Corp.-supplied front passenger airbag inflators that could explode in a crash.
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Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling another 247,000 cars, pickup trucks and SUVs to replace Takata Corp.-supplied front passenger airbag inflators that could explode in a crash.
The new campaign is the third in the past two years to fix the same problem in roughly 1.5 million vehicles worldwide.
The callback, which expands on the scope of the earlier recalls, covers 2002-2005 model Lexus SC coupes and Toyota Corolla and Matrix small cars, Sequoia SUVs and Tundra fullsize pickup trucks.
All affected vehicles are in high-humidity regions: south Florida and the Gulf Coast, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Saipan, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
At least five other carmakers who launched similar regional recalls earlier this year are expected to expand those campaigns too as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration continue to probe the extent of the problem.
In the past six years 10 carmakers have now recalled about 16 million vehicles equipped with potentially faulty Takata airbag systems.
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