Toyota is telling the homeowners of round 7,300 autos in Canada to cease driving them as a result of their air bag inflators could explode.
The discover covers sure 2003-2004 fashions, together with roughly 5,000 Toyota Corollas, 1,600 Toyota Corolla Matrixes and 700 RAV4s that have been offered in Canada, a Toyota Canada spokesperson mentioned Tuesday.
Whereas the recall itself isn’t new, spokesperson Philippe Crowe mentioned the corporate is hoping to succeed in clients who should be driving their automobile round with the issue nonetheless not resolved.
“The ‘cease driving’ discover is being despatched to homeowners of autos who haven’t, after many communications try, had the recall process completed on their car,” Crowe mentioned in an electronic mail.
The affected autos are outfitted with Takata airbag inflators, which use a propellant that “could degrade over time” or “after experiencing long-term publicity to fluctuating excessive temperatures and environmental moisture,” Toyota Canada states on its web site.
No Canadian deaths have been recorded in reference to this recall, probably because of Canada’s decrease absolute humidity.
A minimum of 29 folks have been killed within the U.S. by Takata inflators since Could 2009, and at the least 30 folks have died worldwide because of accidents attributable to the airbags.
A warning was issued Monday for the homeowners of round 61,000 Toyota and Common Motors autos within the U.S., the most recent in a collection of notices linked to Takata airbags that stretch again a decade. A collection of recollects started in 2014, when the U.S. Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration ordered the corporate to provoke a nationwide airbag recall. Takata has since gone into chapter 11.
Common Motors didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Am I affected by the recall?
Clients who consider they’re affected by the recall can examine by going to Toyota Canada’s web site and getting into their car identification quantity.
In case your car is impacted, contact a Toyota dealership to rectify the problem, which can embrace changing the airbag inflator or the airbag meeting, freed from cost.
With information from The Related Press
