Carmaker BMW will recall 1.4 million vehicles in China due to faulty airbags, the country’s market regulator announced. Cars that have undergone steering wheel modifications may have faulty airbags from Japan’s Takata Corporation that could rupture and “cause fragments to escape and potentially injure occupants,” the regulator said.
The affected cars include models produced from 2003 to 2017. About 600,000 domestically produced cars, produced by the joint venture Bmw Brilliance Automotive, and about 760,000 imported cars will be recalled. For cars confirmed to have defects, the German automaker will replace the front airbag free of charge.
Since 2014, millions of cars equipped with Takata airbags have been recalled, and the company went bankrupt three years later. Ford recalled three million vehicles containing Takata airbags in 2021. In July of this year, BMW recalled nearly 400,000 cars in the United States for the same reason.