BEIJING: Chain’s state-owned FAW Car Co. is going to recall 15,798 cars over defective airbag.
The company will recall Besturn B50 car models manufactured between Feb. 9 and June 30 this year, China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said in a statement on its website.
The watchdog said there were concerns the airbag control units in the affected vehicles were not functioning properly. It said in extreme cases, there was a possibility “that the airbags may explode by themselves”.
A spokeswoman for FAW did not answer calls to her phone for comment. FAW Car Co. Ltd operates a joint venture partnership with Japan’s Mazda Motor Corp. in China. In July, China’s quality watchdog said it was recalling 42,732 Mazda 6 sedans due to an airbag problem. The airbags were supplied by Takata Corp., the company at the heart of massive recalls globally involving Japanese, U.S. and European automakers.
