Toyota and Honda, two of Japan's largest automobile manufacturers, have issued recalls on millions of cars over unrelated safety issues.
Both Toyota and Honda have announced recalls for millions of their cars due to safety issues. Toyota will be taking back 3.4 million units while Honda will recall 2.7 million cars.
Toyota Recall
On Tuesday, Toyota said it will be recalling 3.4 million cars, 2.9 million of which are in the US, due to a potentially defective equipment designed to protect passengers during a crash. The recall will cover units in North America, Central America and South America.
Among the models affected by the recall were the Corolla, Corolla Matrix, Avalon, and Avalon HV lines that were produced between 2010 and 2019.
According to Toyota, these automobiles could be equipped with a defective electronic control unit (ECU), which is meant to help protect passengers during a crash. The ECU is designed to communicate with a car's sensors and help trigger its airbags and seat belt pretensioners.
The company said it discovered that the ECUs in these units might not work properly due to certain noises that could interfere with the device's connectivity and "can lead to incomplete or non-deployment of the airbags and/or seat belt pretensioners."
Honda Recall
Meanwhile, Honda said that it would recall 2.7 million cars, 2.4 million of which are in the US and 300,000 in Canada, because some Acuras produced between 1996 and 2003 might have dysfunctional Takata airbag inflators.
Honda said they may have been produced without the "appropriate seals" needed to deploy properly.
Japanese airbag maker Takata has been faced with a massive safety scandal, which included faults that can cause airbag inflators to explode, under-inflate or spew shrapnel at passengers. The scandal has prompted the company to file for bankruptcy and has led to the largest auto recall in history, involving tens of millions of cars.
