Nissan and NHTSA implore owners of older vehicles still equipped with defective Takata airbags to have them removed. Auto123 has details.
Nissan and the NHTSA this week issued a recall to owners of older Nissan and Infiniti vehicles over defective Takata airbags that remain in place. The recall comes with a do-not-drive request.Takata airbags have been responsible for the highest number of recalls for a single problem: defective airbags. These could explode during a collision, sending metal fragments flying into occupants' faces.
And if we're still talking about them today, it's because some older vehicles still fitted with them have not yet been repaired. An added problem is that the older the cushion, the greater the risk of malfunction. Some 84,000 vehicles are believed to be still on the road with potentially at-risk units in the U.S. In Canada, Nissan estimates the number at 48,000.
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