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 vehicles in the Canadian market occupy 32,000 of them.

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NHTSA pointed out that among the above-mentioned vehicles, OCS (OCCupant Classification System), Santa Fe’s OCS (Human Occupancy Classification System), has hidden dangers, 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 Sundat model that was also imported into China had not cancelled the issue because it had “cancelled” the safety 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 repeatedly "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 units, 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 because of the 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 restrained." Sun Xiaohong pointed out that after the ultra-conventional rapid growth in China's auto production and sales volume, 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 flaws 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.

2007 Santa Fe

The 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. As a result, the airbags cannot be deployed during a collision and passengers are injured. risk.

2012 Sonata

The curtain airbag of Sonata's lateral auxiliary restraint system has the risk of self-opening. The gas-storing air charging module of the airbag adopts a welding sealing plug, but the sealing race of the failed vehicle may be broken, resulting in internal stored helium leakage. And deploy the airbag.

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.