#Takata airbag recall

An extra 852 BMW cars in Cyprus must be taken off the road immediately due to a serious safety risk from faulty Takata airbags. The recall was ordered after BMW informed ...

Vehicle owners in Cyprus who have yet to respond to the recall notice for defective Takata airbags have until October 3, 2025 to replace the faulty components, the Department of Road Transport (...

Investigators will now study the report written into the history of faulty airbags in Cyprus and their permeation into the Cypriot market, police spokeswoman Kyriaki Lambrianidou said on Wednesday, after ...

The report filed by the committee formed to investigate the history of faulty airbags in Cyprus has been forwarded by the legal service to both the police and cabinet, the ...

The four people who served as transport minister between 2013 and 2023 “bear heavy responsibility” for the issue of faulty airbags and their permeation into the Cypriot market, the report submitted by ...

It was outside the police’s remit to inform the road safety council of links between potentially faulty airbags and fatalities on Cyprus’ roads, the police’s traffic department director ...

Parents of people killed in car accidents due to faulty airbags manufactured by Japanese company Takata decried the “cheap excuses” offered by current and former state officials called to testify ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Wednesday said he was first made aware about the issue of faulty airbags manufactured by Japanese company Takata by the father of one of the ...

Galatariotis Motors and Honda Cyprus replace up to 1300 faulty Takata airbags a month, in the framework of vehicle recalls, the company said on Tuesday. It added that the number of ...

The charges levied on motorists driving ‘grey vehicles’ – those which are imported second-hand privately – for having their airbags replaced amid mass recalls are “completely legal”, the motor and electric vehicle ...

The Consumer Protection Service forwarded 4,966 Rapex notifications concerning vehicle recalls to the Road Transport Department (TOM) between 2011 and 2025, but has yet to receive a single response, the service’s director ...

Cyprus did not break European Union law over its regulation of the import of vehicles with potentially faulty airbags manufactured by Japanese company Takata, at least in part because there ...

Up until January of this year, no certification was required that a vehicle must not be subject to recall in order to have it registered, the panel investigating the Takata ...

The three-member committee appointed to examine the recalls process for cars imported from the EU and third countries began its first public hearings on Thursday. The first witness to testify ...

The road transport department (TOM) has updated its Takata airbag recall list, as over a hundred cars under recall are now to be immobilised immediately, after information received from CIC ...

Around 7,000 faulty airbags have been replaced so far since the government decreed the recall of over 80,000 cars at the beginning of February, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Friday. Speaking ...

The government cannot issue a decree outlawing the levying of administrative charges by car dealerships to replace faulty airbags, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Wednesday. Speaking after the day’...

Faulty Takata airbags had another day in the sun on Tuesday, as MPs discussed certain dealerships charging car owners to check if their airbags needed replacing, while answers provided by ...

The Road Transport Department (TOM) has at long last set up a call centre to provide vehicle owners with valid information regarding faulty airbag recalls. Owners can call the helpline ...

Hands up anyone who thinks there will be full accountability for the Takata airbags scandal that has resulted in the deaths of two young people that we know of and ...

The transport ministry has never stopped working on the airbag recall issue, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday, adding that he was saddened by the fact that Yiannos Oxinos, ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved the provision of free bus travel for people whose vehicles have been immobilised as part of government decrees related to faulty airbags and other faults on ...

Decrees ordering the recall of cars fitted with faulty airbags will be made on Monday, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, he said he ...

As the Takata airbag recall crisis continues to unfold in Cyprus, MEP Michalis Hadjipantelas is leading an urgent call for immediate European action to address the defective airbags, which have ...