Daimler is strong in the recent expansion of the debacle to defective airbags by the Japanese supplier Takata. the US affected. The German carmaker said on Tuesday, as a precaution to summon 705,000 Mercedes-Benz cars and Daimler Vans and around 136 000 in the workshops. That is more than double that of the last US annual sales of Stuttgart. The US traffic supervisory Daimler had previously informed that the authority possible defects had been reported.
With the airbags from Takata there in the car industry for years major problems. You can trigger abruptly due to technical failures and cause an explosion, are flung through the interior of the vehicle’s part of the fairing. US investigators go at least ten deaths in connection with it from.
callback detracts consolidated earnings
Daimler announced on Tuesday also to have made provisions for the recall, the consolidated earnings 2015 reduce 340 million to 8.7 billion euros.
So far, BMW true as the most affected by the Takata deficiencies German manufacturer. The end of January, the US Department of Transportation, however, had announced an expansion of the nationwide recall by five million more cars. There are in the United States now total more than 24 million vehicles affected. The NHTSA had stated in October that problems clenched at the five carmakers Fiat Chrysler, Ford , Mazda, Honda and BMW, to the 14 million of cars accounted for. The largest part relates to Honda.
Volkswagen checked yet
At Daimler was already known that some of the vices of the brand Daimler Trucks North America are affected. The recent expansion of the recall relates to the VW subsidiary Audi . However, there is so far neither the NHTSA nor the companies a concrete indication of the extent. A VW spokesman said on January 24 to demand which vehicles of the Group are affected, must be determined internally.
Volkswagen have the conditions imposed by the NHTSA taken recall of all Takata-driver airbag type SDI and PSDI on the US market, “note”: “Volkswagen will evaluate the impact of this decision for the US market and other markets carefully and work cooperatively with NHTSA and other authorities.”
Although the airbag supplier for over ten years making problems, the exact cause is still not fully understood. Takata argues that accidents would be in connection with particularly hot and humid climate. The use of fuel ammonium nitrate, which is as a trigger suspected the company has largely stopped. Takata of NHTSA already get aufgebrummt million penalties, the Group’s top managers were taken by Congress to cross-examine
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