About 120,000 vehicles in UK have been left unable to drive their vehicles after a fatal deficit charge with the Airbags.
Giant Giant Stellantis recently claimed that people should stop using Citroen C3 popular Citroen C3 and DS3 related ds3 until they have been repaired.
The “Stop-drive” commands arrive between the increasing concerns of airbags safely included, following a deadly accident in the France last month.
The number of several owners since telling the BBC that dealt with long waiting to repair their vehicles. Stellantis said “It is unavoidable” that customers will be distracted.
Among those affected by Lisa Shackleton from Hull who touches BBC with your voice, your BBC news. The 69-year-old is the Citroen DS3 of 2014. You need to take her elderly husband to specialize medical appointment.
He also booked summer vacation in a three-hour house, to close his daughter, facing chemotherapy. But now he is not sure how to get there.
“I’ve tried to make the car fixed, but as I didn’t know me just as soon as possible, the first time July said,” he said.
“Repeated at EY York Sale, and that goes an hour.”
Another car driver told BBC that he could not book his car to be prepared until January next year.
The Stellantis, a lot of land-owned country of Citroen Brand, “says” works for the boosting “the number of vehicles that can prepare daily, and that is addressed to the most urgent needs.
Airbag Scandal
The stop-drive recalls, where the owners are told not to use their cars at all because of safety risks, it is rare. This is concerned with all the C3 and DS3 models built from 2009-2016, and the DS3S produced from 2016-2019. Stellantis said they should not be conducted until the Airbags were produced by Japanese supplier from Japan now.
It is recent advances in the egg to run long earlier than 100 million cars worldwide ten years ago.
The matter was reinstated at last month after the driver’s death of northern France. A 37-year-old woman driving Citroen C3 was killed after a small collision in Marims while beating with a flying iron from a clay airbag.
Takata once became one of the largest sellers in the world of airbags, security devices aimed for protecting people from the wells where accidents occur. But in 2013 reports it began to appear in the death of the killed or injured by their products.
Exhaustible chemicals, they are used to add bags as soon as the accident occurred, which still became apparently over time, especially in warm and humid conditions.
This can make them explode for too much energy, crawling their metal bowl, and sends shrubs in the car cabin.
A large number of carkeers were affected and responded promptly with a proliferation. However, Stellantis, he was known as the PSA group before the Fiatchrysler was told to be told the airbags made of their European factories were not affected, and continued to be installed in new vehicles as a result.
Takata was sprayed in 2017, its reputation that was spent.
“Poor Communication”
Stellantis said only knew the events that involved in 2019, and initially believed the cars in hot and humid regions. It began a campaign to remember in those areas.
In April last year when remarking was expanded throughout Europe, but the people were allowed to drive their vehicles while waiting.
C3 and DS3 were already covered by this memory, but after the incident in northern France, Stellantis continued to continue, proclaiming the driving act in the country, including UK. This began on the June 20th.
Since then, many car owners have complained to the BBC of mischievous communication from Stellantis and mixed, sometimes contradictory, messages from Citroen and DS merchants and DS.
Without difficult disruption that is sometimes caused by daily life of the car, Stellantis said they have compensation programs while adding that “included the entire company of necessary Airbags.
The spokesman said: “It is inevitable, there is a large number of affected vehicles, the customers will be distracted in a short time.”
Unfortible what customers should get their cars to deal with repair work, because they will not be conducted. Industrial experts say that drivers should check with their perspectives before getting a wheel.
The company said that “investigate the restoration of Airbag restoration of the other sites, above our Citroen network, including [the owner’s] home “.
At that time in France, the government told Corsica and weather, where the weather is hot, to stop using any cars of any cars of any kind of Takata Airbags.
The same command serves in the vehicles in France Mainland built before 2011. Overall, approximately 2.5 cars affected.
In the UK, the driving agency and cars means that he sponsor Stellantis decision to issue stop-drives to remember and work with a company.
The owners can find that their car is included in recall here.
