NHTSA demands recall of 67 million air bag inflators made by ARC Automotive
ARC rejected NHTSA's tentative conclusion that a defect exists saying it is based upon seven field ruptures in the United States. NHTSA"then asks ARC to prove a negative – that the 67 million inflators in this population are not defective" that were produced over 18 years. The company said it will continue to work with NHTSA and automakers to evaluate ruptures.
NHTSA in 2016 upgraded a probe of more than 8 million airbag inflators made by ARC after a driver was killed in Canada in a Hyundai vehicle and has been investigating more than seven years.NHTSA said through January 2018, 67 million of the subject driver and passenger frontal airbag inflators. Delphi, acquired by Autoliv, manufactured approximately 11 million of the inflators under a licensing agreement with ARC, which manufactured the remainder of the inflators.
ARC noted there have been several testing programs of inflators collected from scrapped or other vehicles but not a single rupture occurred during these tests. The 67 million inflators were produced for the U.S. market on multiple production lines across different plants and used by 12 vehicle manufacturers in dozens of models."None of these manufacturers has concluded that a systemic defect exists across this broad population," ARC said.
NHTSA said that ARC in January 2018 completed installation of devices on inflator manufacturing lines used to detect excessive weld slag or other debris. NHTSA said it is unaware of issues in ARC inflators produced since then. ARC said weld slag has not been confirmed as the root cause in the ruptures.Over the last decade, more than 67 million
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