Kia recalling 410,000 vehicles over potentially dud airbags | Car News

Kia is recalling some 410,000 motor vehicles because of to an airbag-connected trouble. Although fairly than becoming probably explosive, they may possibly be duds, and not deploy at all in the even of the crash. Of the cars afflicted, just above 58,000 are in Canada.

The NHTSA (Countrywide Freeway Site visitors Safety Administration), the equal of Transportation Canada, describes in a document released this 7 days that in certain Sedona, Soul, Soul EV, Forte (2017-2018) and Forte Koup (2017-2019) designs, the deal with of the airbag command unit may well arrive into get in touch with with a memory chip on the circuit board and hurt the electrical circuit. Destruction to that circuit can lead to the airbags to deactivate, protecting against them from deploying when needed.

Kia suggests the dilemma to start with appeared last July in Korea. The organization acquired 13 shopper issues and 947 guarantee statements. Fortunately, no accidents or accidents have been documented.

As portion of the recall, dealers will need to examine the airbag regulate device. They will then both update the application or swap the device, relying on the predicament. Of course, the operate will be carried out at no expense to consumers.

Entrepreneurs will be notified by mail setting up March 21.

We contacted Kia Canada to locate out how a lot of models are impacted in Canada. The recall impacts 58,053 units in Canada, like 24,737 Souls, 18,649 Fortes, 12,909 Sedonas, 1,729 Soul EVs and 29 Forte Koups.

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