Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (HMC) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (NSANY.PK), have recalled about 3 million vehicles worldwide due to an airbag defects. Takata Corp had supplied these defective airbags to the carmakers.
Toyota has recalled 1.73 million vehicles, Honda about 1.14 million units and Nissan about 480,000 vehicles worldwide.
It is possible that the passenger front airbag inflators in affected vehicles may deploy with too much pressure, which may cause the inflator casing to rupture and could result in injury.
The vehicles involved include certain Toyota Corolla, Corolla Matrix, Sequoia, and Tundra, and Lexus SC 430 models manufactured from 2001 - 2003.
Honda Canada also said it will voluntarily recall approximately 11,043 Acura 1.7 EL vehicles and approximately 80,854 Honda Civic vehicles from the 2001-2003 model years and about 6,140 CR-V vehicles from the 2002-2003 model years and about 9,749 Odyssey vehicles from the 2002 model year in Canada to replace the passenger front airbag inflator.
Honda Canada noted that it is aware of one crash in which a passenger front airbag deployed with too much pressure, causing the casing to rupture. Honda is not aware of any injuries or deaths related to this issue.
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