In 2015, the manufacturer had already performed similar operation TORU HANAI / REUTERS
The brand "will directly contact customers of the involved vehicles (by registered mail) so that, upon availability, moving with the cars Network Official Toyota Dealers," said Publico one responsible for the communication of Toyota Caetano Portugal, Victor Marques.
The transaction has no cost for customers and the replacement operation of the airbags take one to three hours, according to the same source.
Toyota announced this Wednesday that will collect worldwide over 5.8 million defective airbags from Takata manufacturer.
The car manufacturer said it will collect 1.47 million installed airbags in cars sold in Europe, 1.16 million units in Japan, 820,000 units in China and 2.35 million elsewhere, excluding the United States, which had already It has been announced calls to review.
The auto parts maker Takata is liable to pay huge damages due to the defect in the airbag systems, linked to at least 16 deaths. The announcement Wednesday brings the number of Takata airbags collected to 23.1 million.
The affected models, including Corolla and Vitz / Yaris, were produced between May 2000 and November 2001 or between April 2006 and December 2014, according to Toyota.
Victor Marques devalues the case in Portugal. "These situations are common in the automotive industry," he says, adding that the ready availability of Toyota to apply product monotorização measures "involving vehicles with more than ten years" reveal the appreciation and care that the manufacturer has for its customers.
Following the example of Toyota Motor Europe, the Portuguese utility puts "safety and quality" as a "priority" putting "customers and people first," says Victor Marques. And it stresses that the brand does not hesitate to take "any action aimed at improving these pillars."
The tripping of the car giant
Toyota returns to be in the mouths of the world for the worst reasons: consumer safety. Something that has happened several times over the past few years.
In 2010, the brand was faced with structural problems in the electronic system of vehicles (primarily problems in the brakes and the accelerator), which forced the company to call the US vehicle revision million.
But it was 2015, black year for what is considered the world's largest automobile manufacturer with headquarters in Aichi, central Japan. In May this year took place the first massive call to repair the cars that had problems airbag detonator produced by Takata company. At the time, the Portuguese brand representative explained that the airbags could "not trigger in case of accident."
In July 2015 it was the turn of the hybrid cars give problems to the software level with particular impact on the overheating of transistors present in the vehicles. New call for review was made and this time, 868 cars were the workshops in Portugal.
Almost a year after the first news with airbags Takata, the problem is far from solved. The situation appears for the second time this year. What we have led the Japanese manufacturers - Toyota, Nissam, Mazda, Mitsubishi Motors and Fuji Heavy Industries - to choose to withdraw from the company, according to The New York Times.
Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota since 2009, said last Friday (21), at a press conference, which was established as a top priority "to ensure the safety and reliability" of customers. With 79 years of existence and about 340,000 employees worldwide, responsible for the car manufacturer look at this problem as one of the greatest difficulties passing the reputation of Toyota.