KARACHI: The Indus Motor Company (IMC) made a fourth recall of Toyota Corolla vehicles in just 13 months taking the total recalls to 16,719 units.

IMC informed buyers that the company is undertaking a special service campaign for 1,719 Toyota Corolla Altis 1.8L Grande manufactured between August 2015 and March 2016.

The above vehicles are equipped with Front Airbag Sensors which over a passage of time could malfunction causing the airbag warning light to illuminate with the possibility that the driver’s side airbag may not deploy during an accident.

IMC in February 2018 informed the vehicle owners that around 2,500 Toyota Corolla 1.8L Altis Grande (August 2015-January 2016 models) were equipped with front airbag sensors. The sensors can possibly malfunction with time, causing the airbag warning light to illuminate with the risk that the driver’s airbag may not deploy during an accident.

In February 2017, IMC had recalled 9,896 Toyota Corolla XLI, GLi, Altis and Altis Grande vehicles (2016-17 models) due to faulty brakes and in June 2017 another 2,700 Corolla XLI, GLI, Altis and Altis Grande models after finding the mounting bolts of the front seats to be improperly tightened.

IMC produced and sold 42,992 and 43,190 units in July-April 2017-2018 as compared to 45,534 and 45,447 units in the same period of 2016-2017. In 2016-2017, total production and sales of Corolla stood at 52,874 and 52,676 units.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2018