Takata CEO Shigehisa Takada declined to comment on the state of recalls outside the US but Honda's recall in India last year does throw some light on the way forward.
Takata Corporation, a Japanese airbag manufacturer made its largest automotive recall in the American history according to US safety regulators, last week.
The company admitted that its airbags have defects and doubled its recall to nearly 34 million vehicles worldwide. This is also the largest automotive recall in the history of USA.
A Reuters report said that the recall will cover 11 car manufacturers and involve passenger and driver-side airbag inflators.
Takata CEO Shigehisa Takada declined to comment on the state of recalls outside the US but Honda's recall in India last year does throw some light on the way forward.
India impact
Honda last week recalled 11,381 cars in India. The recall covered 10,805 units of Accord, 575 units of CRV and one Civic sedan.
"The company would carry out preventive replacement of passenger side airbag inflator of 575 units of CR-V manufactured in 2004 and driver side airbag inflator of 10,805 units of Accord manufactured between 2003-2007 as part of Honda's global recall/safety improvement campaign concerning airbag inflators," Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) said in a statement.
This announcement follows from the one in June 2014 when Honda Motor announced recalling over 20 lakh vehicles globally over potentially flawed airbag inflators. Recently, the company recalled 4.89 million vehicles globally to fix airbag issue.
Following that, in India, Honda Cars recalled a total of 1,338 units of Accord and CR-V, to replace faulty airbag inflators.
Ever since Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), an auto industry body issued voluntary recall code, in July 2012, over seven lakh vehicles have been recalled by various manufacturers till date.
These manufacturers comprise Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra, Toyota, Ford, Honda and General Motors.
In October, 2014, Nissan, a Japanese auto unit recalled 9,000 units of Micra and Sunny in India which were manufactured between 2008 to 2012. This recall was also made in order to check the safety driver airbags manufactured by Takata.
Mahindra & Mahindra recalled 2,300 units of its SUVs, Scorpio, XUV500 and Xylo manufactured on or before July last year to update the side curtain airbag software and rectify defective vacuum pump in engines.
The same company also recalled around 23,000 units of Scorpio in July 2014 to rectify faulty pressure regulating valves.
Renault, a french auto company recalled 646 units of hatchback Pulse and sedan Scala in India to fix faulty driver side air bags.
In October 2014, Audi recalled 382 units of its premium sports utility vehicle Q7 in India which was manufactured in March-December 2012 . This recall was done to replace faulty vacuum line in brake system.
Honda last year also recalled over 31,226 units of Brio and Amaze to check proportioning valve of braking system.
Prior to that year, in 2013, Nissan recalled over 22,000 units of Micra and Sunny cars in India to check faulty braking system.
In may 2014, General Motors recalled 15.8 million vehicles worldwide, covering 36 different models.
The government made recalls mandatory following the country's largest recall of 114,000 units of General Motors' multi-purpose vehicle Tavera manufactured in 2005.
Because of the rising number of vehicle recalls, the Automative Research Association of India (ARAI) introduced its first vehicle recall code. The policy specified that companies should follow standard procedures to detect manufacturing defects.
This Takata recall to fix faulty airbags is going to impact India as carmakers are likely to widen their recalls to fix the issue.
Nissan, on its website, said, "Nissan is conducting a voluntary recall campaign on Micra and Sunny vehicles in India regarding a driver airbag concern that was reported to Nissan by airbag supplier Takata from May 2010 to July 2012. No incidents have been reported associated with Nissan vehicles. To ensure Nissan India Quality standards, we will voluntarily correct affected cars without any cost to customers."
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