Hyundai Recalls Accents, Elantras Due Airbag Pretensioner Problems

Hyundai has widened a remember for so-identified as ‘exploding seatbelts’ to 239,000 motor vehicles. Product-12 months 2019-2022 Accents and 2021-2023 Elantras are the targets of the recall.

The recall revolves all over seatbelt pretensioners that can explode in the occasion of an incident.

Seatbelt pretensioners are meant to use an explosion to retract fast. Having said that, these particular pretensioners may be exploding uncontrollably (giggle stifled) and sending shrapnel flying.

Hyundai is conscious of three these incidents happening as a result much, two in the U.S. and 1 in Singapore. The style and design appears to be at fault, although Hyundai says that it has not seen the identical issue in other styles. That may well have something to do with how the framework of these models performs in a collision.

Hyundai is in the course of action of achieving out to the proprietors of the afflicted autos.

Hyundai ideas to replace the defective pretensioners with a modified style that contains a stress reduction valve. This valve will, of program, be intended to keep the device from exploding when a crash occurs.

[Image: Hyundai]

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