Volkswagen Commercial vehicles started a large -scale recall of various vehicles, as can be seen from a report from the group. On its website, the company wrote of “danger to life through faulty airbags” that the Japanese company Takata has been installed: “The Takata company has delivered for years to the automotive industry Airbags with faulty gas generators who can change due to aging through certain climate influences (heat and moisture) and thus become dangerous for them and their passengers in an accident.” Loud “Frankfurter Rundschau” are affected by various models from 2005 to 2018
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In addition to the VW vehicles, numerous models from other manufacturers are also affected. The “Auto Motor Sport” magazine had already reported a recall campaign by the VW subsidiary Audi in January. At that time, copies of the A4 and A6 were affected, some of which were up to 20 years old. Audi had called 140,000 models back to the workshop since autumn last year.
Takata had to pay a billion dollar penalty
Takata has been using occupants protection systems for vehicles for almost 100 years, including vehicle belts and airbags. The company has a story with recalls of its products. As early as 2014, the American traffic safety authority NHTSA TAKATA called for the recall of all fronts of the fronts after faulty triggering five deaths. In 2017, the company had to pay a fine of one billion dollars, three managers of the company were charged.
Since problems with Takata airbags for the first time in 2014, more than 100 million vehicles have been requested due to incorrect airbags, according to “Auto Motor Sport”, which is the same as the largest recall campaign due to safety aspects in automotive history. On the website of Audi
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Customers can check whether their model is affected by the recall.