Growing up as a young kid with a father who was a car dealer in the south east, this was one of the biggest recalls car dealers had. Dealers had to do this for free and try to get the corporation to pay.
(タカタ株式会社, Takata Kabushiki Gaisha) was a Japanese automotive parts company. The company had production facilities on four continents, with its European headquarters located in Germany, where it also had nine production facilities.[4] In 2013, a series of deaths and injuries associated with defective Takata airbag inflators manufactured by their Mexican subsidiary Tacata Airbags led Takata to initially recall 3.6 million cars equipped with such airbags. Further fatalities caused by the airbags have led the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to order an ongoing, US-wide recall of more than 42 million cars, the largest automotive recall in U.S. history.[5][6][a] In June 2017, Takata filed for bankruptcy.[7] It was acquired by Key Safety Systems.[8]