Toyota Indus Motors has recalled 1,719 Toyota Corolla Altis 1.8L Grande cars, which the company shipped between August 2015 and March 2016. As per Dawn, the company has recalled the vehicles under a special service campaign.
It is to be noted here that this is the fourth recall by IMC in a small span of time. The vehicles sold during the time mentioned above house front airbag sensors which over the time could malfunction leading the warning light to appear. And due to this, there are chances that at the time of the accident the airbag of driver side might not deploy.
Toyota Corolla car is a top-seller sedan in Pakistan for the past many years now. IMC sold 52,676 units of Corolla in the fiscal year 2016-17, while last month in April 2018 it sold 4,946 units.
Indus Motors recalled 2,500 Toyota Corolla 1.8L Altis Grande in February 2018 and 2,700 Corolla XLi, GLi, Altis and Altis Grande models in June 2017.
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Aside from recalling the car for service, the company has suspended the booking of cars for non-filers. IMC, a few days back, issued a public notice encouraging its buyers to change their status from non-filer to filer to avoid delivery delays or cancellations of vehicle orders. The public notice reads as,
“While announcing the budget for the fiscal year 2018-19, the government has recently introduced a new policy in order to restrict all non-filers from purchasing locally manufactured and/or imported vehicles. This includes all individuals whose names do not appear in the Active Taxpayer’s list as well as those customers who have already booked a vehicle and are expecting delivery after 30th June 2018.”
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