The Ministry of Transport announced this Tuesday that car manufacturers must offer “mobility solutions” to immobilized customers for more than 15 days by dangerous Takata brand airbags.
Car manufacturers will have to offer “mobility solutions” to their immobilized customers for more than 15 days by dangerous airbags of the Takata brand, such as the loan of a replacement vehicle, the Ministry of Transport said on Tuesday, July 29.
These vehicles targeted by a “stop Drive”, or 1.7 million in total in France, will have to be repaired on average 15 days after the appointment of “elevated ones”, said the Ministry of Transport.
Manufacturers must also offer home repair meetings, or tow the dangerous vehicle to the garage, according to a decree which is to be published this Wednesday, July 30 in the Official Journal, and which AFP was able to consult.
This decree confirms that all the cars concerned equipped with airbags considered at risk in Corsica and overseas must be immobilized, as well as cars dating from before 2011 on metropolitan territory outside Corsica.
The ministry has also confirmed the general recall of all cars equipped with a risk of risk throughout France, or 600,000 additional vehicles, but without immobilization.
Many brands concerned
Most manufacturers are concerned from Citroën to Volkswagen via Mercedes, but excluding the Renault group.
If they have not already been contacted by mail, motorists must check on the site of the manufacturer of their vehicle (list of links to the various websites available here) if it is concerned, with its wine number, indicated on the gray card.
The manufacturers have twenty days from this Wednesday, July 30, to transmit to the State a first weekly report identifying the actions they will have initiated.
In the event of a breach, manufacturers have a week to set up corrective actions, under penalty of a penalty of one million euros per week late.
Manufacturers are also required to launch “regular” campaigns on radio or by display to inform their customers, but also “door-to-door and street canvassing actions in the departments and overseas regions”, where reminders are skating.
18 dead in France
Since 2014, the industrial scandal of these airbags, which have caused a long series of accidents and deaths, has been shaking the automotive sector worldwide.
Because of a badly aging gas, this safety equipment supposed to protect passengers in the event of a shock, can explode, especially in hot and humid climates, projecting parts of the drivers.
A second fatal accident linked to these airbags took place in mainland France in early June. They caused a total of 18 dead and 25 injured -including 16 deaths and 24 injured in overseas -, according to the Ministry of Transport.
