Renault Pulse and Scala recalled in India

Renault India has issued a voluntary recall of the Renault Pulse hatch and its mid-sized sedan, the Renault Scala over a faulty airbag issue.  The nation-wide exercise will see a recall of 646 units of the Pulse and Scala manufactured between September 2011-July 2012.

The company has also stated that the recall is carried out as a part of its nationwide exercise and there has been no report of untoward incidents so far. The replacement of the affected parts will be done by the dealers of Renault.

Renault’s JV partner Nissan, too, had issued a recall of 9,000 units of its compact car Nissan Micra and mid-size sedan Nissan Sunny to fix the faulty airbag issue in October last year.

Over seven lakh vehicles have been recalled by a number of automakers since auto industry body SIAM started a voluntary vehicle recall for safety related issues in India in July 2012. These automakers include bigwigs such as Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra, Toyota, Ford, Honda and General Motors.

In one of the biggest vehicle recalls in India, Maruti Suzuki had recalled in April 2014 1,03,311 units of the Maruti Ertiga, Maruti Swift and Maruti Swift Dzire — manufactured between November 12, 2013 and February 4, 2014 to replace faulty fuel filler neck.