Modern recalls more than 220,000 Santa Fe airbags

According to Reuters news on the 30th, Hyundai Motor is currently recalling more than 220,000 Santa Fe SUVs and Sonata cars in North America due to the discovery of an airbag system malfunction.

NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said in a recent report that Hyundai Motor’s US distributors will recall 199118 2007-2009 Santa Fe, production time from April 19, 2006 to July 8, 2008 And 22,512 2012-2013 Sonata, production time from January 24 to June 21 this year. The total recall of the two vehicles was 221,620 vehicles. According to Canadian media, the two cars in the Canadian market occupy 32,000 of them.

The airbag NHTSA pointed out that among the above-mentioned vehicles, OCS (OCCupant Classification System), Santa Fe’s OCS (Human Occupancy Classification System), has hidden troubles, and it is impossible to accurately identify minor occupants, so that airbags cannot be deployed in a collision accident. Therefore, Santa Fe's OCS needs to be re-adjusted.

The curtain airbags of Sonata's lateral auxiliary restraint system have the risk of opening themselves.

However, the relevant person in charge of modern China responded to media interviews that the new Shengda models that were also imported into China had not "recalled the recall problem because they cancelled the security configuration."

In response to an interview with the newspaper yesterday, Beijing Hyundai also said that “The Chinese market’s Sonata has been fully domesticated, side airbags and related components and the recalled US version of Sonata are produced by different parts suppliers, and The design, process and other aspects are completely different. Therefore, there are no such problems in Beijing Hyundai related products."
Coincidentally, in the recent large-scale recalls of BMW, Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, and Ford Maverick, the Chinese market, as an important market for a number of these manufacturers, has been frequently "absent" in large-scale recalls.

This is a strange circle. The Chinese auto market is always “harmonious” under the dual factor of the “missing” recall laws and the happiest attitude of the manufacturers: In the case of more than 100 million vehicles, with production and sales volume ranking first in the world for three consecutive years The recall rate of the Chinese market is even less than one-tenth that of the United States.

According to statistics, in 2011, the United States sold 12.78 million vehicles, implemented 593 recalls, and the recall amounted to 15.4726 million, which was 121% of the current year's sales. In the same period, in the Chinese market, the sales of automobiles were 18.5 million, the number of recalls was 85, and the total recall amounted to 1.827 million units, accounting for 9.9% of the sales volume for the current year.

In this regard, the industry's senior commentator Sun Xiaohong pointed out that the Chinese market in the recall case frequently "absent" on the one hand due to manufacturers "differentiated", on the other hand, the domestic automobile recall regulations and the corresponding punishment mechanism is not perfect, leading to some manufacturers There is a sense of luck for problem vehicles, and the public DSG event that has received much attention in the past has also been lost in this atmosphere.

“All this is nothing more than the lack of sound laws and regulations in China, and the behavior of these companies cannot be constrained.” Sun Xiaohong pointed out that after the ultra-conventional rapid growth of China's auto production and sales, the multi-dimensional construction of industrial policies has required urgent development.

Recently, Hyundai Motor Co. of South Korea announced that it had recalled more than 220,000 Santa Fe and Sonata models in North America since August due to defects in airbags.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA reported that the 2007-2009 Santa Fe was recalled. The production date was from April 19, 2006 to July 7, 2008, involving a total of 199118 vehicles. The other model is the 2012-2013 Sonata, the production date is from January 24 to June 21 this year, involving a total of 22,512 vehicles. The total recall of the two models was 221,620 units.

The 2007 Santa Fe US National Traffic Safety Administration stated that the OCS (OCCupant Classification System) in the Santa Fe model is flawed and it is impossible to accurately identify minor occupants, so that airbags cannot be deployed in a collision accident. , thereby increasing the risk of passenger injury.

The 2012 Sonata and Sonata's side-assisted restraint system's curtain airbags have the risk of self-opening. The airbag's air-inflated inflation module uses welded sealing plugs, but the closing race of the failed vehicle may break, resulting in internal stored defects. Air leaked and deployed airbags.

It is understood that Hyundai Motor began investigating related hidden dangers in April this year, and has already noticed that 16 airbags have not been properly deployed. Hyundai Motors will issue recall notices to consumers from August. Hyundai Motor dealers in North America will upgrade the passenger identification system or replace the side curtain airbags for recalled vehicles free of charge.