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Takata Airbags Recall Complete List of Models

About Takata Corporation

One of the biggest stirs in the automotive world was caused by the big Takata airbags recall Complete list of models influenced by this recall is finally available on our web site, but before we go to the list, let’s find out a little bit more about this story.

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Takata airbags recall Photo credits: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/business/international/honda-nissan-and-mazda-join-recall-over-faulty-air-bags.html?_r=0

Takata Corporation is a car parts company founded in 1933 by Takezo Takada. Back then this company was producing parachutes and other textile products. In the fifties this company tart explorations in car safety segment, after which they produced their firt series of seat belts. Later they start producing child restraint systems and they made the first crash test polygon, where they tested their products in real crashes. In the eighties they became a corporation and they spread their business to United States and South Korea. Their business continued to grow and at the beginning of the new millenium they bought German company called Petri AG and opened they new European headquarters in Germany.  Since Petri was one of the their main rivals, this largely affected their business, in a good way of course.

Believe it or not the big recall everybody is talking about is not their first. In 1995 there was a big recall of large numbers of Japanese vehicles (more then 8 million), caused by defective seat belts, made by this corporation.

Big airbags recall started in 2013, when a few big companies announced they are recalling large number of vehicles due to airbags failures. Honda was one of the largest partner and they stated that they know about 2 deaths and more than 30 injuries caused by airbags delivered by this corporation. In only two months of 2013 more than 3,6 million vehicles have been recalled. Most affected were the vehicles produced by: Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, but also some American and European brands like Dodge, Ford and BMW.

All defective airbags came from Takata plant in Mexico, and the corporation admitted they made defective airbags, by storing chemicals in airbags in dangerous manner. they soon move all the production from Mexico to Germany and one year later another approximately 3 million more models were recalled, by some of the biggest car manufacturers.

Both American and Japanese driving safety agencies confirmed that increased humidity, that somehow get inside the airbags can cause explosive propellents to destabilize.

Here we give you the complete list of models recalled because of Takata airbags defect:

Acura

CL 2002, 2003

TL 2002, 2003

MDX 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

RL 2005

BMW

3 Series sedan and wagon 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

3 series coupe and convertible 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

M3 coupe and convertible 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Chrysler

300 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

Aspen 2007, 2008

Dodge and RAM

Dodge Ram 1500  2003,2004,2005,2006, 2007, 2007, 2008

RAM 2500  2006,2007,2008

Dakota 2006,2007,2008

Durango 2006, 2007, 2008

RAM 3500  2006, 2007, 2008

RAM 4500  2006, 2007, 2008

RAM 5500  2008

Ford

Ranger 2004

GT 2005, 2006

Mustang 2005, 2006, 2007

Honda

Accord 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Civic 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

CR-V 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Odyssey 2002,2003,2004

Element 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

Pilot 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Ridgeline 2006

Infiniti

I30 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

I35 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

QX4 2002, 2003

FX35 2003, 2004, 2005

FX45 2003, 2004, 2005

M35 2006

M45 2006

Lexus

SC430 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Mazda

Mazda6 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Mazdaspeed 2006, 2007

RX-5 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

MPV 2004, 2005

B Series 2004

Mitsubishi

Lancer 2004, 2005

Raider 2006, 2007

Nissan

Maxima 2001, 2002, 2003

Pathfinder 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Sentra 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Pontiac

Vibe 2003, 2004, 2005

Saab

9-2X 2005

Subaru

Baja 2003, 2004, 2005

Legacy 2003, 2004, 2005

Outback 2003, 2004, 2005

Impreza 2004, 2005

Impreza WRX 2004, 2005

Impreza WRX STI 2004, 2005

Toyota

Corolla 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Sequoia 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Matrix 2003, 2004, 2005

Tundra 2003, 2004, 2005

Literature:

http://blog.caranddriver.com/massive-takata-airbag-recall-everything-you-need-to-know-including-full-list-of-affected-vehicles/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takata_Corporation

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