BMW will recall 1.4 million vehicles in China due to faulty airbags, the country’s market regulator said on Friday, AFP reported.
Cars which have had steering wheel refits could have defective airbags from Japan’s Takata Corporation, that could potentially cause injury to occupants, the State Administration for Market Regulation noted.
Affected cars include models that have been made from 2013 to 2017, AFP noted. Roughly 600,000 domestically made cars and 760,000 imported cars will be recalled, the newswire reported.
BMW will replace the front airbag free of charge for cars that are confirmed to have defects, AFP noted.
The news publication noted that millions of cars fitted with Takata airbags have been recalled since 2014, and the firm went bankrupt three years after that. Ford, too, had recalled three million vehicles that had Takata airbags in 2021, the publication noted.
In July this year, BMW recalled roughly 400,000 cars in US for this very reason.
China is the world’s biggest automotive market. The previous month, EVs and hybrids comprised more than half of sales, marking a first in the highly competitive segment dominated by local brands, AFP noted.