EU alert · Safety Gate Serious risk Motor vehicles
Passenger car Mazda “Mazda 6” — risk: injuries
Published in the Safety Gate weekly report: · Ref. A12/0496/13
Summary
null The density of the propellant in the inflator may be insufficient due to inappropriate production and storage conditions of the propellant. In this case, the inflator may abnormally ignite at the time of airbag deployment, allowing the inner pressure of inflator to increase abnormally, resulting in breakage of the inflator case.The passenger airbag will not provide adequate protection during a frontal impact…
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Product
Passenger car — Mazda
- Brand
- Mazda
- Name / model
- Mazda 6 · The recall affects certain vehicles produced from 14 February 2002 to 20 April 2003. VINs range:JMZ GG**** 01 100581 – 167961 JMZ GG**** 31 100113 – 167866 JMZ GY**** 01 100075 – 126340 JMZ.....
- Category
- Motor vehicles
- Passenger car
What is the risk?
- null The density of the propellant in the inflator may be insufficient due to inappropriate production and storage conditions of the propellant. In this case, the inflator may abnormally ignite at the time of airbag deployment, allowing the inner pressure of inflator to increase abnormally, resulting in breakage of the inflator case.The passenger airbag will not provide adequate protection during a frontal impact and the broken pieces of the inflator case could injure the passenger.
Source: Safety Gate — European Commission
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