Affected by the previous crash test fraud incident, Toyota's Daihatsu Motor officially submitted an application to Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on January 24.A total of 322,740 vehicles of both models were recalled., it is worth mentioning that this is the first time that the car company has filed a recall application due to improper testing experiments.
Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism instructed Daihatsu to consider recalling Daihatsu's Cast model and Toyota's Pixis Joy model. In addition, Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism also revoked the production licenses for three Daihatsu models and found 14 additional cases of misconduct.
In December last year, Toyota said in a statement that during an investigation of its subsidiary Daihatsu Motor's vehicles, it was found thatMost of its vehicles have been found to have falsified safety crash test data, so all car shipments will be suspended.
A few days later, the company resumed shipping new cars to Malaysia and Indonesia, but the company still tentatively plans to produce in Japan, and it is uncertain when it will resume.
According to reports, Toyota has discovered approximately 174 violations in 64 models. In addition to Daihatsu brand cars,It also includes vehicles produced by OEMs for Toyota and Mazda.
The investigation conducted by Toyota focused on the car's airbag control unit and showed that the airbag control unit used in the crash test was different from the airbag control unit actually sold.
The company stated that the reasons for the illegal operations include "the work schedule is too tight and rigid, causing great pressure", "over-responsibility on site and lack of management participation", "the management only focuses on short-term development and turns a blind eye to irregularities", etc.
Daihatsu Motor's misconduct also involves false reports on headrest impact testing and safety test speeds of certain models. The investigation found that the misconduct was particularly common after 2014, including one model that has been discontinued.Even dating back to 1989Year.