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General Motors will recall and temporarily stop selling certain 2016 Chevrolet Colorado, Chevrolet Malibu, and GM Canyon vehicles.
Apparently, GM will call back 1,750 vehicles in the United States of America and Canada, along with an unspecified number of cars in Mexico. The aim of this recall action is to replace the front airbags of these vehicles.
The safety devices might be dangerous, but this is just an assumption, and the car manufacturer wants to keep it this way. According to Detroit’s biggest carmaker, no injuries related to the airbags placed in the steering wheel of these cars have been reported.
GM explained that the vulnerability of these vehicles can only appear in a high-speed crash, Automotive News informs. The described situation ignites the second-stage deployment of the driver frontal airbag.
What’s more, the carmaker says that the inflator’s second-stage might not fill the airbag entirely or as fast as designed, thus presenting an increased injury risk to the driver.
We must note that this recall action has no relation to the Takata situation, as the vehicles targeted by this campaign have been manufactured by a different supplier. However, General Motors has not specified which company is responsible for the potentially defective airbags. In the case of these cars, the callback has been initiated fast enough to avoid any potential long-term effects the image of the carmaker could suffer because of safety recalls.
A quick response time means that the automaker and the supplier have done their quality checks and random inspections properly. After all, the specified number of airbags is easily manufactured by a large-scale supplier, so they must have figured out that potentially flawed ones have been supplied to a carmaker.
General Motors representatives do not think that this recall campaign and the stop-sale order will drastically affect sales of the popular models they will temporarily not market. They expect this whole delay situation to be short-lived, and dealers can sell inventory cars if the vehicles are fixed first.
The safety devices might be dangerous, but this is just an assumption, and the car manufacturer wants to keep it this way. According to Detroit’s biggest carmaker, no injuries related to the airbags placed in the steering wheel of these cars have been reported.
GM explained that the vulnerability of these vehicles can only appear in a high-speed crash, Automotive News informs. The described situation ignites the second-stage deployment of the driver frontal airbag.
What’s more, the carmaker says that the inflator’s second-stage might not fill the airbag entirely or as fast as designed, thus presenting an increased injury risk to the driver.
We must note that this recall action has no relation to the Takata situation, as the vehicles targeted by this campaign have been manufactured by a different supplier. However, General Motors has not specified which company is responsible for the potentially defective airbags. In the case of these cars, the callback has been initiated fast enough to avoid any potential long-term effects the image of the carmaker could suffer because of safety recalls.
A quick response time means that the automaker and the supplier have done their quality checks and random inspections properly. After all, the specified number of airbags is easily manufactured by a large-scale supplier, so they must have figured out that potentially flawed ones have been supplied to a carmaker.
General Motors representatives do not think that this recall campaign and the stop-sale order will drastically affect sales of the popular models they will temporarily not market. They expect this whole delay situation to be short-lived, and dealers can sell inventory cars if the vehicles are fixed first.
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