The Southern Courier | The US government has called for the recall of 67 million vehicles

The Southern Courier | The US government has called for the recall of 67 million vehicles

  • Of this number, about one million cars are owned by GM

  • Airbag supplier ARC denied the claim

  • ARC Automotive manufactures vehicles from General Motors, Stellantis, BMW, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has requested the recall of 67 million airbags because it believes there is a safety defect, but the car sales company ARC Automotive Inc. has rejected the US regulator’s request,

GM accepted the request

ARC airbags are installed in vehicles from General Motors, Stellantis, BMW, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors. On Friday, GM agreed to recall nearly one million vehicles equipped with ARC airbags following a rupture in March that caused facial injuries to one driver.

List of affected vehicles at GM

GM’s recall affects 994,763 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia vehicles from model years 2014 through 2017 with modules manufactured by ARC Automotive Inc. Dealers will replace the driver module. NHTSA said the airbags posed an unusual risk of death or injury. Even as the shortage grows, “ARC has not identified any defects that would require recall from these individuals,” NHTSA said in its demand letter to the Tennessee-based company. “Airbags that place metal fragments on vehicle occupants, instead of properly inflating the air, pose an extraordinary risk of death and injury.

The research started in 2016

In 2016, NHTSA opened an investigation into more than 8 million airbags manufactured by ARC after a driver died in Canada in a Hyundai.

NHTSA said that as of January 2018, 67 million driver and passenger airbags were affected. Delphi, acquired by Autoliv, manufactured about 11 million of these airbags under a license agreement with ARC, which manufactured other airbags. 67 million of these were produced for the North American market on multiple production lines in different factories and used by 12 automakers in several models. “None of these authors concluded that a systemic defect exists in the general population,” the ARC said.

Welding problems

NHTSA said that in January 2018, the ARC completed installing equipment on production lines for sensors used to detect welding slag or other contaminants. NHTSA said it was not aware of any problems with ARC airbags produced since then. ARC said it has not been proven that weld slag was the cause of the break.

NHTSA has been closely investigating airbag deployment for more than 15 years.

Plus information from Automotive News

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