Andy_Bangle Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 Honda, Mazda and Nissan are recalling millions of their vehicles from all over the planet due to airbags that could possibly explode.While no accidents have actually been reported as yet, the Takata Corp. airbags have warned that they very much could do at any moment.Honda Motor Co. recalled 2.03 million vehicles for the airbag problem, including 1.02 million vehicles in North America and nearly 669,000 vehicles in Japan. That came on top of a million vehicles Honda recalled last year for similar Takata airbag palavers.Nissan Motor Co. recalled 755,000 vehicles globally, while Mazda Motor Corp. recalled nearly 160,000 vehicles. Like Honda, both companies announced recalls last year, but in smaller numbers.Toyota Motor Corp. announced an airbag recall earlier this month for 2.27 million vehicles. One fire was reported related to the defect, but no one was injured, Toyota said. Meanwhile, in the MotorPunk airbag testing dept.... http://youtu.be/CTkRaOafWpA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 at the video... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Is Takata still trading? surely they've gone under due to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted October 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 WOW - just fecking wow ... when you think it couldn't get any worse for Nissan they've announced a recall of another 1.6million Toyotas and Lexus's (near every Lexus made BTW) for a brake master cylinder fault.................. This is the 3rd or 4th worldwide recall of cars that Toyota / Lexus has made this year. The Lexus recall is for "faulty fuel supply line pipes" according to the BBC news at 10am. So Toyotas have duff brake master cylinders and Lexus's might explode in front of you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted October 15, 2014 Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 The actual scary thing is that this is almost certainly not because Lexus and Toyota have more faults than other cars. It's because they're quality control standards are so much higher (and are progressively improved hence recall of older cars). Makes you wonder what other manufacturers are either missing or hiding. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted October 15, 2014 Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 If anything, it makes me more likely to buy a Toyota or Lexus. I can't see Ford, Renault, BMW etc ever issuing a world wide recall of every car for something that won't affect 99.9% of the cars, and is probably only a theoretical problem anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted October 15, 2014 Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 I'd agree, its companies like Renault with the Clio that have bonnet catches that don't work after they are a few years old and still today say its not an issue. Fair play to Toyota and Lexus if they find an issue they sort it quickly and efficiently and I'd bet getting people back into the dealers showing the good service are more likely to buy again or even have a look at another deal when they pop in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted October 15, 2014 Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 Funny you should mention the Clio. When I went to pick up my car earlier, my mechanic was stood scratching his head looking at a Clio with it's bonnet embedded in the windscreen and leading edge of the roof. Unfortunately for him, it was a customers car and he was driving it when it happened, it's likely to be written off despite not actually being very old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 If anything, it makes me more likely to buy a Toyota or Lexus. I can't see Ford, Renault, BMW etc ever issuing a world wide recall of every car for something that won't affect 99.9% of the cars, and is probably only a theoretical problem anyway. Agree with your slightly warped logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted May 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 And this recall just keeps getting bigger and bigger, luckily most are in the US. the Japanese airbag maker last week said the number of vehicles affected was 53 million globally. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32925357 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashleywater Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 Just another result of "Outsourcing" the manufacture of components I think it is pretty much common knowledge as to where a lot of product manufacture has been relocated to or sub let in effect In my own industry a lot of our suppliers closed down their Midlands manufacturing facilities and "Outsourced" supply to of all places, would you believe? China Result? QA & QC issues are abundant with the kit, so much so we do not use it anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 Audi have a rather large recall too, at the moment they are only recalling vehicles in the US, but it'll surely have to end up being world wide, after all, the 2.0 Diesel that uses ridiculous amounts of oil isn't only available in America, it's everywhere else too. I think they are on Watchdog next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 (edited) Don't you mean the 2.0TFSI petrol that uses loads of oil? Mine uses a bit but due to my low mileage not a massive amount. I may have it checked etc just to help resale. Oh and Audi won't do a "recall" for that. By which I mean Audi won't call it a recall. Apparently they say recall's are only done for safety issues. Edited May 29, 2015 by Scotty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 Sorry yes, petrol engine, they've recalled them in the US, can't see how they can get away with not doing it elsewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 People with complaints/issues are going to their dealers and they're doing consumption tests i.e. set a level of oil and then measure consumpption over 2000 miles (I think) If people (such as me so far) don't go back then nothing will happen. A bit like the way VAG handled the coil pack issue. If losing a cylinder (imagine during an overtake) isn't a safety issue and hence due a recall then I can't see them doing it for excessive oil use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted May 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 Audi have have had the oil disappearing problem for years, my old A4 allroad went in for a fix. Yep, I saw the trailer for next weeks Watchdog - it's on, Audi will pay as much attention to that as FIFA would to an empty brown envelope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashleywater Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Having had quite a few 2.0 TFSI engines in various VAG variants,over the last few years I can only confirm no issues whatsoever with high oil consumption that includes cars with 80K on the clock as for our current S3 which we have had for 5 years come end of this year Not sure if they do anything different with the performance variant of this engine that addresses the oil guzzling issues that appear to be out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted February 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 And the recall goes on and on and on .... This week the three largest German automakers said they will recall 2.5 million vehicles in the United States equipped with Takata Corp air bags: VAG said it would recall 850,000 vehicles (170,000 Audi). BMW said it would recall 840,000 vehicles. Daimler AG said it would recall 840,000 vehicles. Some 24 million U.S. vehicles involving about 28 million Takata air bag inflators have been recalled. 1 million UK vehicles have recalled so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted February 12, 2016 Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 Have Takata gone bust yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted February 12, 2016 Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 Have Takata gone bust yet? Given the size of the company and how much they are worth, I don't think that's going to be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted February 12, 2016 Report Share Posted February 12, 2016 It's not so much a case of the company going bust as their products going bang... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted February 13, 2016 Report Share Posted February 13, 2016 It's not so much a case of the company going bust as their products going bang... Hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Posted February 13, 2016 Report Share Posted February 13, 2016 It's not so much a case of the company going bust as their products going bang... That was a bit of a let down... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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