Subaru stops production at its Gunma plant due to defective component – Malaysian vehicles not affected

Subaru stops production at its Gunma plant due to defective component – Malaysian vehicles not affected

Subaru has stopped production at its Gunma plant for several days due to a defective electric power steering component from its supplier, Hitachi Automotive Systems. The shutdown at Subaru’s sole Japanese plant is expected to last until Monday (January 28, 2019).

According to an official statement, models that are affected by this issue include the Forester, Impreza and XV made between late December 2018 and January 16, 2019. Affected vehicles will have a warning light flash in the instrument panel, and the steering wheel will feel heavier due to a malfunctioning power steering system.

For now, the carmaker is investigating the matter, and has yet to announce an official recall for affected vehicles. The stop in production will likely have an impact on Subaru’s consolidated business results, although it isn’t disclosing any info for now.

Motor Image Group (MIG), the distributor of Subaru vehicles in nine countries – including Malaysia – has announced that the defect does not affect any of its customers. This is because none of the affected production has been delivered to MIG customers.

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Comments

  • azrai on Jan 24, 2019 at 11:21 am

    This is where the magic happened in our beloved country. Everytime around the world got recall sini sana, when Malaysian distributors say: Our product not implicated. What? How?

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    • Celup King on Jan 24, 2019 at 11:54 am

      The real secret, most of these Japanese car assembled here are using ASEAN and Malaysia made components. So basically that Subaru quality is no better than a Perodua.

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    • YB Kunta Kinte on Jan 24, 2019 at 12:37 pm

      Yup. Only Malaysia this happens. Because Government also cannot act neutral as they own nearly all the car companies. So, Government also cannot kantoi itself.

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    • Eternalgl0ry on Jan 24, 2019 at 1:50 pm

      Just a cover up only

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    • Facepalm on Jan 24, 2019 at 1:50 pm

      Bcos nobody buy subaru in Malaysia?

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      • stastasta on Jan 25, 2019 at 2:12 pm

        subaru (motor image) sales in malaysia has been growing for past few years. lots of forester and xv on our roads now.

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  • Jeremy Tan on Jan 26, 2019 at 7:54 am

    so i did receive a letter from FORD saying that my FORD RANGER is affected by a safety recall due to a defective side door latch that can cause a closed door to unlatch when the vehicles are being driven. so any of ford ranger owner receive that too? just to make sure is it actually that bad?

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