Nissan to stop the usage of Takata Airbags following Toyota, Mazda and Honda

Kuala Lumpur: Takata Airbag Scandal is getting more and more worse as another Japanese Car manufacturer Nissan has announced to drop the use of Takata Airbags in its vehicles. A few days ago Toyota, Mazda and Honda announced to abstain from the use of faulty airbags and now Nissan has announced the same while Subaru and Mitsubishi are in plans to cease it too.

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Bloomberg reported that, Dion Corbett, a Nissan spokesman said, “In line with the recent announcement from the United States’ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, we have decided to no longer use inflators containing ammonium nitrate in airbags for future models. We will continue to put our customers’ safety first and work to replace the inflators in vehicles under recall as quickly as possible.”

Takata’s airbags use Ammonium nitrate as a composition of propellant, which when subjected to moisture and heat, can become unstable and rupture with excessive force, resulting in injury, and even death.

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So far, Honda, Toyota and Nissan are the three companies that formed the largest number of vehicles recalled due to Takata-sourced airbags, reports Bloomberg.

Akio Toyoda, Toyota president, said at a briefing in Tokyo recently that, “The inflator using ammonium nitrate produced by Takata will not be adopted by Toyota”.

Apart from these manufacturers, Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) and Mitsubishi are also planning to ditch their Japanese mate Takata. If this would happen then the company’s market share will further plunge to 5%, compared to 22% from last year.

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