UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) has announced a “special service campaign” (otherwise known as a product recall) to replace the inflator module in the airbag system on the front passenger side in various vehicle models. The current exercise involves around 21,000 units of the Toyota Vios, Corolla Altis and Alphard manufactured from January 2013 to December 2014 and which were officially sold by UMWT in Malaysia.
The defect is due to propellant degradation occurring after prolonged exposure to high absolute humidity and temperatures as well as high temperature cycling. The inflator module contains a non-desiccated, phase-stabilised ammonium nitrate propellant that may cause the rupture of the module.
Should such a situation occur, metal fragments will pass through the airbag as it inflates and shoot into the vehicle interior at high speed, leading to serious injury or death.
Parts for this campaign are currently being sourced by TMC and once the parts are available, UMWT will notify owners and request them to bring their cars to an authorised Toyota service centre to make the necessary replacements. The job should take anywhere from one to three hours, and all costs for the replacement will be borne by UMWT.
The latest recall is an expansion of the earlier campaigns announced by Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) to rectify the Takata airbag issue that has resulted in the auto industry’s largest ever recall.
With safety of customers being the top priority, UMWT is urging the owners of the involved vehicles to contact any authorised Toyota service centre or call the Toyota Freephone at 1800-8-TOYOTA (869682). Owners can visit Toyota’s Special Service Campaign webpage to check whether their vehicle is involved, doing so via the online Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) checker.
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It’s been so many years already and it’s about SAFETY!! And now only they re-act
… after busy counting excessive profit selling taik cars. Safety ‘their father’s head’, furthermore most Hondas including the one in my household already have the airbag inflator replaced 1- 2 years ago.
Honda > Toyota
So dangerous, drive safe always
What about those gray import models? Shouldn’t Toyota Corp be also responsible for it? UMWT could offer replacement but charge installation fee.
more ppl will thumb down
Because young boyz don’t drive Alphard. Understandable on thumbs down. It doesn’t impact their lives nor current lifestyle nor does it concern them.
umw has no legal obligation to recall grey import models. thats the risk that buyers need to beware. if something bad happens years down the road, grey import buyers need to be responsible themselves and not simply beg mercy from umw .
pelik…estima and wish nvr recalled.
estima and wish were never sold by umw. owners are on their own.