▲ Mighty units of Hyundai Motor are recalled due to poor brake hose assembly. ⓒ Hyundai
▲ Mighty units of Hyundai Motor are recalled due to poor brake hose assembly. ⓒ Hyundai

In South Korea, The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 2nd that manufacturers will voluntarily recall on 57,295 units in eight vehicles

Subject to the recall are automobiles manufactured, imported, or sold by △ Hyundai Motor Company △ GM Korea △ KIA △ Nissan Korea △ Giheung International.

18,282 units of Ionic Electric which were manufactured and sold by Hyundai Motor will be recalled due to functional safety mode software design errors. Functional safety mode is a software to ensure the safety of passengers and vehicles by limiting the power of the car or notifying the driver of the vehicle condition with a warning light when detecting an abnormality in the vehicle.

It has been confirmed that there may be a possibility of an accident by an intermittent delay in acceleration or increasing speed of a vehicle when the accelerator pedal is released during the safe mode is activated. It is due to a poor grounding of the driving device because of a functional safety mode error.

17,406 units of Mighty will be recalled due to poor brake hose assembly. When the car is driven with poor brake hose assembly, shock absorber, which improves rideability by extinguishing shaking caused by road surface bending damages the hose by friction. As a result of the damage, It leaks the brake fluid and make braking system inoperative.

Ionic Electric will be repaired with no charge from the 7th and Mighty from the 9th at Hyundai Motor's direct service center and Blue Hands.

10,608 units of Bolt electric vehicles imported and sold by GM Korea were found to have a possibility of fire. Vehicle can be caught on fire when two extremely low manufacturing defects happen at the same time in high-voltage battery cells,

These vehicles will also be repaired free at GM Korea's official service center from the 3rd of December. Considering risks and supply and demand of parts, high-voltage batteries will be replaced sequentially.

▲ Carnival units of KIA will be recalled due to poor manufacture of internal parts of the right automatic door lock. ⓒ KIA
▲ Carnival units of KIA will be recalled due to poor manufacture of internal parts of the right automatic door lock. ⓒ KIA

10,383 units of Carnival produced by KIA were defective in the manufacture of internal parts of the right automatic door lock. It has been confirmed that the vehicle door is incompletely closed due to poor manufacture of internal parts of the locking device, opening the door during driving, causing injuries to passengers. From the 2nd of December, parts will be replaced with free of charge at Kia's official service center.

316 units of two models, including Murano Hybrid imported and sold by Nissan Korea, will be recalled due to software design errors in hybrid control devices. If a overload occurs on the internal clutch bearing due to a software design error, it has been confirmed that there is a possibility of inoperative of safe mode and inactive engine. From the 10th, software updates will be available free at Nissan Korea's official service center.

300 units of two-wheeled models, including the Royal Nfield Interceptor imported and sold by Giheung International, will be recalled to correct errors in setting up engine control software. Due to a setting error, it has been confirmed that the accelerator may be rapidly accelerated or deaccelerated during idle or engine can be turned off while driving. Software updates have been underway at Giheung International's official service center since the 1st.

The manufacturer will inform the car owner by mail and mobile phone text. If the car owner repairs the defect at his own expense before recall, he may request for compensation for the cost.

"To ensure the safety of the people from defects in cars, we operate a car recall center that collects and analyzes vehicle manufacturing defect information." an official from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said.

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