General Motors have turned to the US safety regulators to get a one-year delay of approximately 1 million vehicles equipped with the problematic airbag inflators produced by Takata Motor Corp.
Citing the Detroit automaker, AutoNews states that a scheduled delay will allow GM and research firm Orbital ATK, which is working together with the automotive giant and other companies within the industry to study Takata’s inflators, to wrap up a long-term aging study that will help experts to better understand the service life of parts.
Additionally, General Motors states that by postponing the safety campaign by a year won’t put users of certain trucks and SUVs at risk, since field and lab testing of the inflators has revealed that they will “likely perform as designed until at least December 31, 2019.“
“GM is taking a systematic, engineering-based approach to better understanding the performance of Takata inflators installed in GM vehicles, and GM continues to share this information with NHTSA on a regular basis“, said a spokesman.
The recall delay refers to the GMT900-based pickup trucks and SUVs, from the 2007-2012 MY, such as the Chevrolet Silverado, Suburban and Tahoe, Cadillac Escalade, and GMC Sierra and Yukon. These vehicles are equipped with defective front passenger airbag inflators, supplied by Takata, which can explode with excessive force in the event of a crash, sending shrapnel towards the occupants, and have been linked to 15 deaths and more than 100 injuries, globally.
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