#airbags

Authorities said on Thursday they are in touch with local Citroen car dealers over an alert concerning faulty airbags in some models. In a statement, the Road Transport Department cited ...

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 department of road transport on Friday revoked the roadworthiness certificates of certain Ford vehicles affected by the Takata airbag recall, citing urgent safety concerns, meaning the cars can no ...

A three-member committee to investigate the supply of vehicles from the EU, the import of vehicles from third countries and the recall of those cars was appointed on Tuesday by ...

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’...

Car dealerships in Cyprus are set to collect millions by charging administrative costs or free airbag replacements in affected cars. Toyota’s dealership, which has the largest number of cars ...

The road transport department on Tuesday apologised after sending text messages to the families of people who had died in traffic accidents, informing them that their cars are subject to ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday moved to reassure motorists that despite Monday’s mass recall, the risk of people driving cars with dangerous airbags is “very low”. “Implementing the ...

Parliamentarians on Tuesday renewed calls on car dealerships to fully cooperate on the issue of faulty Takata airbags, stressing that the government will regardless press on with efforts to alert ...

With hundreds of car owners lining up for the replacement of faulty Takata airbags, after their vehicles were recalled and may be requested to remain immobilised, the transport ministry is ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it will not seek an immediate recall of airbag inflators in about 50 million U.S. vehicles assembled by 13 automakers and instead will conduct ...

The hastily prepared bill for the recall of cars with faulty components, which was chopped and changed throughout Thursday by the House transport committee, will be put to the vote ...

The public will inevitably be inconvenienced over the recall of vehicles with faulty Takata airbags, but this is the price of safety, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Friday. Speaking ...

Dealers are legally obligated to replace faulty Takata airbags free of charge, the director of the road transport department, Andreas Louka, said on Wednesday. This comes as the consumer protection ...

Parliamentarians on Tuesday sent a bill aiming to beef up existing regulations about vehicle recalls to a plenum vote on Thursday, following the outcry over the dangerous Takata airbags that ...

The government is “ready” to cooperate with parliament to find a solution to the issue of cars with faulty airbags remaining on Cyprus’ roads, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on ...

MPs on Tuesday heard that thousands of cars installed with faulty airbags could make for a “ticking time bomb” while one former official called for such vehicles to be temporarily ...

Toyota Motor 7203.T said on Wednesday it will recall 1.12 million vehicles worldwide because a short circuit in a sensor could cause air bags not to deploy as designed. The recall ...

Car death raises issue of faulty airbags Claims last week that a faulty airbag may have caused a young man’s death has raised questions over who has the responsibility ...

Police said on Thursday that the case file of a young driver who died, perhaps due to a faulty airbag, is now with the legal services. Police spokesman Christos Andreou ...

The road transport department confirmed it is closely monitoring the recall process for vehicles with airbags from a specific manufacturer after it was suggested that the death of 24-year-old Kyriakos ...

The government said Thursday it wants to mandate airbags for professional motorcyclists, especially for food delivery drivers, after a spate of serious road accidents. Speaking after a parliamentary committee, Transport ...