OZCUBAN Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 Today the Australian government announced a compulsory recall on all cars fitted with faulty air bags BT Takata BMW Make & modelYear BMW 3 Series E46 ALPHA12/2001 - 03/2003 BMW 3 Series E469/1999 - 8/2006 BMW 5 Series E39, 3 Series E46, X5 E532002-2005 BMW 5 series E39, 3 Series E46, X5 E532000-2004 BMW E70 X5, E71 X62007-2012 BMW E70 X5, E71 X62007-2012 BMW E70 X5 & E71 X62013 Chrysler Make & modelYear Chrysler 300(LE/LX)2005-2012 Chrysler 300, 300C2005-2010 Chrysler 300, 300C2013 Dodge Make & modelYear Dodge RAM2004-2010 Ferrari Make & modelYear Ferrari 458, California, FF2008-2011 Ford Make & modelYear Ford Mustang2006-2014 Honda Make & modelYear Honda Accord, CR-V ALPHA2001-2002 Honda Civic ALPHA2001 Honda Accord ALPHA2001-2002 Honda Civic, Accord, Accord Euro, CR-V, Jazz, MDX ALPHA2001-2003 Honda Jazz ALPHA2004 Honda Accord Euro, Civic Hybrid, CR-V, Civic, Jazz2003-2004 Honda Accord Euro, CR-V, Civic, Jazz, City2002-2009 Honda Jazz, CR-V2005-2007 Honda MDX, Accord2001-2007 Honda City, CR-V, Insight, Jazz, Jazz Hybrid2006-2012 Honda City, CR-V, Insight, Jazz, Jazz Hybrid2011-2014 Honda Civic, Legend, Jazz Hybrid2006-2012 Honda Accord Euro, City, CR-V, Jazz, Insight2007-2011 Honda Legend, Odyssey, Accord, MDX2003-2011 Honda Civic, Accord2006-2011 Honda Accord Euro, City, Jazz & Insight2012 Honda Legend2012 Honda Accord2012 Honda Civic2001 Honda Jazz, Jazz Hybrid, Insight and Accord Euro2013 Jeep Make & modelYear Jeep Wrangler JK2007-2012 Jeep Wrangler2013 Lexus Make & modelYear Lexus SC4302000-2003 Lexus IS 250, IS 250C, 350, IS F2005-2011 Lexus IS 250, IS 350, IS 250C, IS-F, LFA2011-2012 Lexus IS250, IS250C, IS350 & IS-F2013 Mazda Make & modelYear Mazda2 (DE)2010 Mazda22007-2015 Mazda RX-82008-2012 Mazda6, BT-502005-2011 Mazda6, RX-8 ALPHA2002-2007 Mazda B2500 & B26002002-2011 Mazda6, CX-7 & CX-92006-2012 Mitsubishi Make & modelYear Mitsubishi GA & GB i-MiEV2010-2011 Mitsubishi Lancer2003-2008 Mitsubishi ML & MN Triton2007-2014 Mitsubishi Pajero NS, NT, NW, NX2007-2016 Mitsubishi Pajero NS & NT2006-2009 Mitsubishi Pajero NT & NW2010-2012 Mitsubishi Pajero NW & NX2013-2017 Nissan Make & modelYear Nissan N16 Pulsar, Y61 Patrol2001 Nissan N16 Pulsar, Y61 Patrol2001 Nissan N16 Pulsar, Y61 Patrol, D22 Navara, T30 X-Trail ALPHA2000-2004 Nissan N16 Pulsar, D22 Navara, Y61 Patrol, T30 X-Trail, A33 maxima ALPHA2001-2003 Nissan N16 Pulsar, D22 Navara, Y61 Patrol, T30 X-Trail, J31 maxima2003 Nissan N16 Pulsar, D22 Navara, Y61 Patrol, T30 X-Trail, J31 maxima2004-2007 Nissan D22 Navara, T30 X-Trail, J31 Maxima, Y61 Patrol2007-2008 Nissan D22 Navara, Y61 Patrol2009-2012 Nissan D40 Navara2008-2014 Nissan D40 Navara2006-2015 Nissan Tiida2006-2012 Nissan C11 Tiida2006-2012 Peformax Make & modelYear Peformax Silverado, Sierra, Mustang2007-2008 Subaru Make & modelYear Subaru Impreza2004-2007 Subaru Tribeca, Liberty, Outback2004-2013 Subaru Impreza, Forester2008-2013 Subaru Exiga2010-2014 Subaru Liberty & Outback2010-2014 Toyota Make & modelYear Toyota Corolla, Avensis Verso, Lexus SC430 ALPHA2000-2004 Toyota Echo, Rav 4 ALPHA2002-2003 Toyota Echo, Rav 42003-2005 Toyota Corolla, Avensis Verso, Yaris2003-2007 Toyota Avensis Verso, Yaris2007-2008 Toyota Corolla, Yaris, Avensis Verso2006-2011 Toyota Corolla2003-2005 Toyota Corolla, Yaris & Rukus2010-2012 Toyota Echo, Rav 42002-2003 Motorcycles Make & modelYear American Honda Motor GL1800 Honda GL1800 Goldwing2012-2015 Honda GL1800 Goldwing2012-2015 POSTED MON 24 JUL 2017, 9:54 AM AEST
Ken Gargett Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 i have a subaru liberty but have had it done. they did a voluntary one last year. mind you, this does not move quickly. i got my letter in december 16 from memory. rang up to book it in and the earliest was november.
jat Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 No Landrover, that's because a faulty airbag is the last thing on the 'to be fixed' list. To clarify mine had done over 260,000km atm and is probably worth about 2 cartons of beer. That said its still going strong and the son has it 2,000km from home on a trip this week.
Fuzz AI Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 24 minutes ago, MIKA27 said: Mercedes not on the list - Awesome Woohoo!!! 1
El Presidente Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 I can't believe my Jeep actually missed a recall......... 1
MIKA27 Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 50 minutes ago, Fuzz said: Woohoo!!! The Best or nothing
MIKA27 Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 The face behind the airbag deaths that caused the world’s biggest car recall IF YOU want a reason to return your car as part of the massive 2.3 million vehicle recall, look no further than 18-year-old student Ashley Parham. She wasn’t even driving fast when she died in 2009, just days after her high school graduation. Ms Parham is likely the first victim of the deadly malfunctioning airbags made by Japanese manufacturer Takata. A former student, community volunteer and cheerleader at an Oklahoma high school, Ms Parham was on her way to pick up her brother from football practice on May 27 of that year in her 2001 Honda Accord. She was wearing a seatbelt and wasn’t speeding as she drove around the car park looking for a space, according to local TV station News 9. She bumped another car, a relatively minor prang, but nonetheless the airbag in the steering wheel inflated. As it did so, it threw metal pieces at such tremendous force towards Ms Parham that one hit the teen’s neck slicing open her carotid artery. She bled to death in her seat. Local Police Chief Brandon Clabes told Reuters her injuries were so catastrophic that doctors who treated Ms Parham initially “thought she might have been shot”, . Mr Clabes said the car park ding “was just a minor traffic accident ... that most people just walk away from with no injuries at all.” In the nine years since, a further 22 people have died and 230 have been injured in incidents linked to the Takata airbags. When Ms Parham died, affected Hondas were already being recalled but her model would only be added to the list following her death. The Federal Government has announced a recall of millions of cars fitted with the airbags, including those made by Ford, Holden and Volkswagen, who will be forced to replace the bags free of charge. Worryingly, Australias’s humid climate could be the perfect environment to lead to the deadly airbag explosions. It’s also humid down in Florida where, in September 2014, Hien Tran was driving home from her family’s nail salon in Orlando. Like Ms Parham, she had a relatively minor crash in a Honda Accord. But when paramedics arrived they couldn’t understand the scene before them. She had suffered a slash through her jugular vein. “Deep cuts on the right side of her neck were not consistent with crash injuries,” a report from the paramedics stated. Hien Tran from Orlando died in an airbag incident in 2014 “There were no windows broken ... that would cause sharp glass to penetrate a human’s body. Therefore, the force of the crash was not significant enough to cause great bodily harm to any occupant in both vehicles.” It looked like Ms Tran had been stabbed, reported the New York Times. Initially, police looked into why someone might murder the Vietnamese immigrant, who never regained consciousness and later died. It was only when, a week later, a letter from Honda came through the post asking Ms Tran to get her car’s airbags fixed that police realised that was the cause. In July 2017, the list of Takata tragedies, which had hit the US and Malaysia, finally hit Australian shores. An unidentified 58-year-old Sydney man crashed his Honda CR-V into a Toyota Celica at Cabramatta in the city’s south west. The airbag deployed but in the process of cushioning his head it also sent a small piece of debris into his neck. He died at the scene. A police investigation found that his death was “likely due to a fault in the airbag.” A 2017 voluntary recall of Australian cars fitted with airbag was a damp squib with a million potentially deadly vehicles still on the road. In 2015, US Senator Bill Nelson points to the injury on a victim who was hit by shrapnel when a car's Takata airbag inflated. “The previous voluntary recall has not been satisfactory overall and it’s the safety of all Australians which is the first priority of this government,” Assistant Minister to the Treasurer Michael Sukkar said on Wednesday. The Government said 25 car types were affected from state of the art Teslas to luxury BMWs and runabout Skodas. Takata, the company behind the airbags, started off as a seat belt manufacturer before moving into the bags in the 1980s. It then started work on manufacturing the intricate and high explosive devices that inflated the bags within a thousandth of a second, should there be a crash. According to Honda, and reported by Reuters, there were question marks about quality control at Takata and how it was storing chemicals used in the airbags as far back as 2002. An “unusual airbag deployment” occurred in 2004, the car maker said. In 2016, following many deaths, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said they had solved the mystery of why Takata’s airbags were exploding with such brutal force following relatively minor bumps. Long term exposure to moisture and temperature fluctuations could degrade the chemical propellant used to deploy the airbags. The propellant in Takata devices was made from ammonium nitrate, a volatile explosive often used in mining. Another agent could stabilise the propellant but this was not fitted to their airbag systems. Those without the added chemical were prone to inflate with such force that a metal canister in the device could be shredded, scooped up and ejected in the process. Those injured have reported fragments in the neck, chest and eyes. The older the car, and therefore the bag, the worse the problem. Manufacturer Takata Corp filed for bankruptcy in 2017. Drivers in humid climates, places such as Florida, Malaysia and Australia where deaths have occurred, were most at risk. The agency prioritised recalls in the hot and humid southern US states. With the massive recalls in the US and Australia, it is expected some 125 million cars will eventually have to be ordered back to their manufactures to have their airbags tested. Once a darling of the Japanese motor industry, Takata is now on its uppers. In June last year, it filed for bankruptcy, the biggest in the country’s history, as it struggled in the face of tens of billions of dollars in costs and liabilities resulting from the airbags. The memory of Ms Parham, the first victim of an airbag recall that has now swept the globe, lives on in an educational foundation set up in her name. A page of obituaries to Ms Parham is still open almost a decade after her death. One more recent entry simply reads: “I miss u sis.”
Islandboy Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 38 minutes ago, El Presidente said: I can't believe my Jeep actually missed a recall......... The night is young....give it some time
BuzzArd Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 Yep. Went through this with everything i own that has airbags, which is only two of seven thankfully. Really not a difficult deal, just an inconvenience for an afternoon. Can't imagine having been a victim of the defect as presented above, but I recall the stories in the news.
gweilgi Posted February 28, 2018 Posted February 28, 2018 "In June 2017, Takata filed for bankruptcy". Is anyone surprised?
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