A Nissan Sentra sits on the lot at a dealership on November 12, 2010 in Evanston, Illinois.Â
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Nissan has warned house owners of older autos with recalled, unrepaired Takata airbags to cease driving them, the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration announced Wednesday.
The Japanese carmaker’s “Do Not Drive” alert applies to 83,920 sure mannequin yr 2002-2006 Nissan Sentra, 2002-2004 Nissan Pathfinder and 2002-2003 Infiniti QX4 autos that will have Takata airbags that had been recalled in 2020.
The inventory was down almost 3% throughout Wednesday’s session following the warning.
“NHTSA is urging all automobile house owners to instantly test to see if their automobile has an open Takata airbag recall,” the NHTSA mentioned in a press release. “You probably have certainly one of these autos, don’t drive it till the restore is accomplished and the faulty airbag is changed.”
Nissan and Infiniti will provide affected house owners free towing and cell restore, in addition to loaner automobiles in choose areas.
“As a result of age of the autos outfitted with faulty Takata airbag inflators, there may be an elevated threat the inflator may explode throughout an airbag deployment, propelling sharp metallic fragments which may trigger severe damage or demise,” a Nissan spokesperson instructed CNBC in a press release (title?).
In keeping with the NHTSA, 27 folks in america have been killed by a faulty Takata airbag that exploded, and a minimum of 400 folks have allegedly been injured by them.
A minimum of 67 million Takata airbag inflators have been recalled within the nation, and greater than 100 million have been recalled worldwide, making it one of many largest auto security callbacks in historical past.
In 2017, Takata filed for bankruptcy in Japan and the U.S. after agreeing to pay $1 billion in criminal penalties tied to its allegedly fraudulent conduct within the gross sales of its faulty airbag inflators.
