Tag Archives: 2002

Honda recalled cars with Takata air bags in 2002: documents

By Paul Lienert

Honda recalled a small number of cars equipped with Takata Corp air bags in March 2002, two years before the first known injury that Honda and Takata have linked to a defective air bag inflator, Reuters has learned.

In its March 2002 recall notice, retrieved by Reuters during a search of U.S. safety databases, Honda told U.S. safety regulators that inflators in passenger air bags could rupture because of improper welds.

GM board warned of serious problems by quality manager in 2002

The U.S. flag flies at the Burt GM auto dealer in Denver

By Marilyn Thompson and Ben Klayman

A former head of General Motors corporate quality audit warned the company’s board in a letter in 2002 that it needed to “stop the continued shipment of unsafe vehicles” and “recall suspect vehicles that were already in customers’ hands.”