Nissan adds 226,000 cars to defective airbag recall

Nissan adds 226,000 cars to defective airbag recall

n April 2013, Nissan issued the first recall of cars using defective Takata Corp components.

Nissan and several other car companies are still paying for the mistakes of the Japanese Takata Corporation, a company that manufactures airbag inflating devices. According to a report from Reuters, the latest automotive company impacted by Takata’s shoddy work is Nissan, which has been in the process of recalling cars using the defective airbag systems for awhile now, but which has recently expanded that recall by more than 200,000 cars.

In April 2013, Nissan issued the first recall of cars using defective Takata Corp components. The airbags made by Takata have a flaw where they can rupture after inflating, potentially harming drivers and other vehicle passengers with shrapnel.

Nissan got proactive about the problem last spring, telling the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about a plan to recall more than 438,000 vehicles. The recall included popular Nissan models like the Pathfinder, the Sentra, the Maxima, and several others. The faulty airbags were featured in cars manufactured between 2001 and 2003.

Now, however, it looks as if Nissan may have underestimated the scope of the Takata problem. On Saturday, Nissan expanded the recall to nearly 665,000 cars, an addition of more than 226,000 extra vehicles. The models and years included in the recall are still the same, it just appears that the problem is more dire than Nissan initially thought.

What sort of impact the growing recall will have on the Takata Corporation remains to be seen. However, it is doubtful that the Japanese company will be able to bounce back easily from this blunder. The faulty airbags have so far forced at least nine automotive companies to recall more than 12 million cars around the world, all in the past five years alone.

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