What is the
Takata recall? Daimler AG was informed that Takata submitted a
"Defect Information Report" to NHTSA in the US on January 25, 2016,
reporting a potential safety defect for SDI and PSDI-5 driver-side airbag
inflators. Takata's investigation of affected inflators to date indicates that
exposure to certain environmental conditions (several years of exposure to
persistent conditions of high absolute humidity), could lead to over-aggressive
combustion in the event of a driver's-side air bag deployment.
On May 16, 2016, Takata submitted an
additional "Defect Information Report" to NHTSA that included PSPI-2
passenger-side airbag inflators.
In a crash where the air bag system deploys, the air bag
inflator housing may rupture. In the event of an inflator rupture, metal
fragments could pass through the air bag material, which may result in injury
or death to vehicle occupants. To date, we are not aware of any instances of
ruptured inflators in Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
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