According to documents released on Saturday by US automobile regulators, 486 SUVs with airbags manufactured by Japan’s Takata Corp. (X3, X4, and X5) from the 2014 model year are included in the recall.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into the safety of about 30 million Takata vehicles, and the recall raises concerns about their safety. Many are forgotten.

In order to inflate airbags that deploy in a collision, Takata employed uncertain ammonium nitrate in order to cause a tiny explosion. However, the chemical can deteriorate over time if it is exposed to dampness and high temperatures. It has the potential to explode violently, breaking the metal container and causing it to spill into pieces.

as May 2009, Takata money launderers murdered at least 26 people in the US along with approximately 30 people worldwide, including individuals in Malaysia as well as Australia. Furthermore, there have been about 400 injuries.

More than 67 million Takata Motors inventors were involved in the most extensive car recall in US history as a result of the potentially fatal flaw. Many, according to the US government, have not been fixed. Globally, about 100 million boosts have been recalled. Takata was bankrupted by blow-up airbags.

According to the documents, a moisture-absorbing substance known as a dessicant—which was excluded from earlier recalls—is present in the BMW boosters.

According to the document, BMW was notified in November of a complaint made to the NHTSA regarding a ruptured driver’s airbag in a 2014 X3. Although the automaker started looking into it, the precise cause is still unknown. However, the documents stated that initial reports point to a manufacturing issue that occurred between February 22, 2014, and March 7, 2014.

Although it hasn’t had a chance to examine the X3 with the malfunctioning airbag, the German automaker claims in an announcement that it continues to look into the matter.

Records from the NHTSA indicate that on October 23, a 2014 X3’s inflation valve exploded in Chicago, causing a sizable fragment of metal to enter the driver’s lung. According to the complaint, the driver also sustained injuries to his shoulder and chest that seemed to be from shrapnel. The claim, which did not name the driver, stated that a surgeon had removed a disc with a gold color from the driver’s lung.

According to the NHTSA, Takata airbags with the deflator are under investigation because there’s a chance they could burst and shoot projectiles. Over thirty million vehicles in more than 200 models from 20 auto and truck manufacturers are covered by the investigation, which was launched in 2021. These manufacturers include Honda, Nissan, and Tesla, BMW, and Toyota, Jaguar Land Rover, Daimler Vans, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Mercedes-Benz, the Ferrari, the McLaren team Porsche, Mazda, Karma, which is Fisker Motors and Spartan Fire cars.

In May 2020, the agency declared it was going to investigate price gougers for the drug but decided not to fight them.

The agency stated in a document launching the investigation that “further research is needed to evaluate the future risk of not recovered risers, even though no current danger has been discovered.”

On Saturday, a representative for the NHTSA stated that he would assess the investigation’s progress. A message was sent asking BMW for a response.

Owners will be alerted by mail beginning on January 16 and dealers will swap the airbags that no cost to them during the BMW recall.

The BMW recall follows General Motors’ recall of almost 900 cars with desiccant-containing Takata price hikers in July. Moreover, GM attributed the issue to a Takata manufacturing flaw.

Regarding GM’s recall from the previous summer, NHTSA said in a statement that the agency lacked information indicating that certain Takata’s in need inventors might lose it all.