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GM says recalling Saab, Saturn brand vehicles with Takata parts

Published 2016-02-16, 09:34 a/m
© Reuters. GM says recalling Saab, Saturn brand vehicles with Takata parts
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DETROIT, Feb 16 (Reuters) - General Motors Co (N:GM) on
Tuesday said it is recalling about 200,000 vehicles of its
former brands Saab and Saturn as part of a wider recall of more
than 5 million autos with potentially defective air bag
inflators made by Takata Corp 7312.T .
There will be 180,000 of the vehicles recalled in the United
States and another 20,000 in Canada, GM said.
The models recalled are Saab 9-3 from model years 2003 to
2011 and Saab 9-5 from 2010 and 2011 model years, as well as
Saturn Astras from 2008 and 2009 model years. These vehicles
have Takata PSDI-5 front driver-side air bag inflators.
No injuries, deaths or inadvertent ruptures of air bags in
these vehicles have been reported but at least 10 deaths have
been linked to Takata air bags, all but one of them in a Honda
Motor Co 7267.T model.
U.S. safety regulator National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration has said that Takata air bag inflators can
explode with too much force, sending metal fragments into a
vehicle.
Last week, the three largest German automakers - Volkswagen
AG VOWG_p.DE , Daimler AG DAIGn.DE and BMW BMWG.DE - each
recalled about 850,000 vehicles with the same inflator as the
vehicles in the GM recall.
Takata said last month that inflators in more than 5 million
vehicles were defective and that those vehicles should be
recalled.

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