In what is a truly scary development, Nissan Motor Co has admitted that an airbag made by Takata Corp, installed in one of its cars, deployed with so much force that it caused a fire in a light crash in Japan. This is the automaker’s first such case in the country.
This latest incident involved a passenger-side inflator in an X-Trail SUV that was made in August 2001. The model had been recalled in April 2013, but shockingly, the recall notice did not reach the driver, according to a Nissan spokesman.
Amazingly, the car, carrying only the driver, was hit on the driver’s side, and the inflator on the passenger-side airbag exploded, smashing the passenger-side window. This also propelled high-temperature fragments into the dashboard, setting off a fire. The driver’s left cheek was slightly burnt as a result of this.
This is the first abnormal deployment of a Takata inflator involving a Nissan in Japan, and the fifth confirmed case in the country across automakers. Nissan confirmed that there had been nine similar cases involving its cars in the US. So far, Nissan has recalled 4.4 million cars globally, and only 85% of the 813,000 recalled in Japan have been serviced.
In Malaysia, four units if the CBU T30-generation X-Trail was recalled in 2013, plus another 12,420 units of the locally-assembled models, announced just last month.
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This isn’t about whether a car is Japanese, German (BMW also uses Takata airbags, btw) or Malaysian. It’s about having a dangerously defective part supplied and installed in every day cars.
act of economic sabotage strategies..
If the airbags in BMW cars are made by Takata,then,does that mean (as seen in a M:I 5 trailer) Ethan Hunt,and Benji,die in the BMW,when those airbags deploy O.O
The driver was really lucky. Can’t imagine if someone was sitting in the front passenger seat. But did the driver side airbag deploy? This was not mentioned. As it only mentioned the passenger side.
Maybe the original owner sold his car, and the new owner did not register with Nissan. That probably explains why the recall notification did not reach him.
So where is the demand for overheat test on Nissan cars? Mana mana mane?!
Why onli ask for P1, nippon butt lickers worship foreign brands izit?
See and people complaining 2 airbag only ….. more airbags more dangerous and most of the airbags are supplied by Takata
That not applied to p1
I have a 2002 Toyota Altis. In 2012 UMW Toyota, in a recall, wrote to me to take the car in to replace the passenger side airbag which I did. Could it be the Takata airbag issue is already known back then?