New Recall on a Recall on a Recall.

[Mooly]

03 Corolla which had front airbag replaced 4 or 5 years ago. The work done was faulty first time round and I had to immediately return as airbag light illuminated on leaving the dealership. An odd screw left out here, bits of plastic clips broken there...... 

Earlier this year (after a couple of years of constant reminders) I had the drivers and passenger airbags replaced at home by the AA as part of a new recall campaign. 

Today I get a new air bag recall notice for campaign LGG88 'Airbag Control Unit' for the Corolla saying the part could experience 'Electrical Shorting' and become 'Damaged'. I'm assuming this is the newly fitted part and that yet another issue has been found with the replacements.

I despair at all this, it has been nothing but constant recalls for the Corolla and my Auris.

[yossarian247]

Perhaps, but how many other manufacturers would even bother to recall an 18 year old car? 

[Catlover]

Probably 3 years ago now there was a massive problem worldwide with airbags supplied by a supplying company. It was so big the company went bust and it took a long time for another company to start to supply and then distribution was lengthy. This problem covered most car manufacturers around the world.

How come you were getting reminders for a couple years with no action, was that a Toyota problem that caused a delay.?

[TonyHSD]

Mitsubishi did that too on old cars few years ago, the dealer in London were happy to work on my old car , a job worth twice as much as the whole car. 

[forkingabout]

Mate of mine, his mother's 1999 T reg Totota Starlet got recalled by Toyota for a new drivers airbag.

[FROSTYBALLS]

Presumably part of the continuing Takata airbag debacle.

[Mooly]

8 hours ago, Catlover said:

How come you were getting reminders for a couple years with no action, was that a Toyota problem that caused a delay.?

Honest answer is it was me not bothering to get it done. After a couple of reminders per year I was told the AA were doing the work on a mobile basis at home and so I got it done. They were brilliant in every way.

The cars nearly 20yr old, it belonged to my father and I never dreamt I would keep it as long as I have. Its probably worth around £200 and it may or may not pass the next MOT in January. Corrosion is getting the better of it although it hasn't failed on anything more than a 'less than orangey' indicator bulb up to now.

[Devon Aygo]

As mentioned above all part of a massive recall worldwide of airbag inflators manufactured by Takata, initially knew the issue existed and that it affected cars Hot Humid countries and worsened the older the cat was however initially there was no "fix" so for safety sake it was agreed to call cars back and fit new inflators but of the same original design this was done in phases order of oldest and  hot humid climates first as the inflators where replaced Toyota at least recovered all of the displaced inflators and tested them this helped to determine causes and potential issue inflator types altering the order of which cars to call back first 

Eventually a fix was found and cars that had new original inflators fitted got called back to have final fix completed.

The whole programme is massive, complex & costly and ultimately drove Takata into receivership meaning manufacturers had to cover the costs, Toyota alone set aside 100's of millions to cover the cost involved other brands such as GM have been affected but are petitioning to avoid the recall as quite simply they cannot afford the costs involved

[Mooly]

Thanks Devon Aygo,

I was partly aware that the first ones to be done were using NOS (new old stock) parts on the basis they would be safer than the parts that had been in service for many years but I honestly thought the latest ones to be fitted (so March this year for me) were of the latest new manufacture.

The latest recall just reads a bit as if some new issue with the new parts (or the way they were fitted) might have been discovered. The letter mentions that 'an electrical short' can occur which is different to the original issue of moisture affecting the original bags.

That is how I interpret it and understood it anyhow 🙂