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Dangerous air bags still haunt older cars nearly a decade later
Even minor crashes can cause the affected cars' air bag to explode, sending metal fragments that can kill or produce ...
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Audi Recalling Nearly 102,000 Cars To Fix Air Bags
Audi is recalling nearly 102,000 luxury cars in the U.S. because the front air bags may not inflate in a crash. The recall covers certain A4 and S4 cars from the 2013 through 2015 model years ...
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Stellantis recalls nearly 318,000 cars to replace side air bags that can explode and hurl shrapnel
The recall covers air bag inflators on both sides of certain Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 large cars from the 2018 through 2021 model years. The automaker says in documents posted Friday by U.S ...
NCDOT employee pleads guilty to importing thousands of counterfeit car airbags
Overseas in the U.K., London police confiscated a total of 500 counterfeit airbags and an estimated more than $180,000 in ...
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That’s One Fast Reaction!
A normal blink of your eye is 100 milliseconds. Around 50 milliseconds after a collision, the person riding in the car hits the air bag, which absorbs their forward-moving energy and protects them ...
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Division of DOT issues safety notice on increased circulation of conterfeit parts
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) recently issued a ...
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NCDOT Employee Pleads Guilty To The Sale Of Dangerous Counterfeit Car Airbags
A Raleigh man pled guilty Wednesday to importing thousands of counterfeit car steering wheel airbags into the Raleigh area over the past two years.  The counterfeit airbags were sold ...
Chrysler recalls more than 6,000 cars over faulty Takata air bags
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is voluntarily recalling more than 6,000 vehicles sold here because of their faulty Takata air bags, which has already have led to the recall of tens of millions of ...