BMW recalls 394,000 older vehicles equipped with Takata air bags
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“It’s a critical concern now, and in five years we’re going to have even more vehicles reaching the age where they are at a critical concern…. As long as these air bags are out there on the road, we are going to see tragedies happen.” – Michael Brooks, Executive Director of The Center for Auto Safety
By Aaron Gregg
July 10, 2024
BMW is recalling 394,000 older vehicles equipped with air bags that can explode and send metal fragments flying at the driver, the latest in a line of Takata recalls that started more than a decade ago.
Regulators are particularly concerned that some of the vehicles may have been modified by the owners to include sport or M-sport steering wheels — performance steering wheels that resemble those on racecars — that use air bags made by the now-defunct supplier Takata, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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