1.7m airbags in SA defective
Car Talk with Jacob Moshokoa · 22 May 2026 · 5m
Speaker 1: Where do you drive it? Speaker 2: Dream it? Oh, detail it. Speaker 1: This is car Talk with Jacob Lasoka and on our garage glossary today, I'm asking Speaker 1: what does r ee V stand for? That's reeve? What does r e e V Speaker 1: stand for? That's what I'm asking on your garage glossary. Let me know on O Speaker 1: seven two five sixty seven one five six seven got a WhatsApp that's just coming Speaker 1: here. Hi, good evening. I have a Golf six GTI manual with all the extra Speaker 1: bought out of the box, with sixty three thousand kilometers on the clock, genuine, immaculate Speaker 1: condition. I keep getting asked if I want to sell, what can I ask for Speaker 1: it? Okay, I'll give you an answer in the next few minutes. That's for our Speaker 1: vehicle evaluation segment, and that will be in about six or seven minutes. Golf six Speaker 1: gt i'm manual with sixty three thousand kilometers on the clock. If I had the Speaker 1: money, I'd even be asking you how much you want for that kind of car. Speaker 1: Anyway, let's get into the next conversation. For years, airbags have been marked as one Speaker 1: of the most important safety features in modern vehicles, designed to save lives in the Speaker 1: event of a crash. But what happens or when the very device meant to protect Speaker 1: you becomes potentially deadly? While that's the alarming reality surrounding the global Takata air bag Speaker 1: scandal, which continues to affect millions of vehicles worldwide, including an estimated one point seven Speaker 1: million cars still on South African roads. Now, these defective air bags…
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