Is your car among the two million cars still on Australian roads with faulty airbags?

Testing Airbags

Testing Airbags Source: SBS

Almost two million Australian cars are still on the road with potentially deadly airbags even after the mandatory recall of the Takata-brand airbags was ordered by the federal government in February. Is your car one of them?


At the top of the list of manufacturers doing well with the recall is Mazda, with 84 per cent of its affected cars now fixed.

582,000 of the total cars affected are from Toyota and its luxury brand, Lexus, 67% of vehicles now rectified. 

Honda follows with 436,000 vehicles, 74% of their vehicles are rectified.

Over the past 12 months, 1.1 million Takata airbags in 930,000 Australian cars have been fixed.

That leaves leaving 1.8 million in 1.6 million vehicles still needing replacement.

20,000 remain on Australian roads.

Is your car one of them?

Drivers can check the safety of their airbags on the website ismyairbagsafe.com.au

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