EU alert · Safety Gate Serious risk Motor vehicles
Passenger car IX35 Hyundai — risk: injuries
Published in the Safety Gate weekly report: · Ref. 0196/12
Summary
null The vacuum pump could fail in service. This failure instantly stops vacuum being produced and over a number of braking applications will reduce the amount of vacuum available for the servo. Also at the time of failure the turbo malfunctions: this reduces available engine torque at the time of vacuum failure.
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Product
Passenger car IX35 — Hyundai
- Brand
- Hyundai
- Name / model
- IX35Vehicles built between 1/10/10 and 30/4/11 are affected.
- Category
- Motor vehicles
- Passenger car
What is the risk?
- null The vacuum pump could fail in service. This failure instantly stops vacuum being produced and over a number of braking applications will reduce the amount of vacuum available for the servo. Also at the time of failure the turbo malfunctions: this reduces available engine torque at the time of vacuum failure.
Source: Safety Gate — European Commission
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