Subaru and Toyota have recalled over 400,000 vehicles for an issue of a valve spring that could cause engines to stall.
According to Newsweek, Dow Jones Newswires released a notice about the recall and this was obtained by Fox Business. It stated that Subaru's Forester, BRZ model, and Impreza are the entire subject to the recall. The recall affected all models that were manufactured between January 2012 and September 2013.
As people all know, Subaru Forester is one of the sports utility vehicles created by the automaker. The Impreza, on the other hand, is a compact model while the BRZ is a sports car. Out of these 400k, over 100,000 recalled vehicles of Subaru were reportedly sold in Japan.
Another vehicle affected by the recall is 86 sports car of Toyota. This was manufactured by Subaru as well and was sold in the United States. Aside from these, the 2012 and 2013's Scion FR-S are included in the recall. The vehicles of Toyota have over 80,000 of the total recalled vehicles. About 25,000 Scion FR-S models in the US that were manufactured between March 2012 and July 2013 were being recalled.
The earlier mentioned source also revealed Valve springs placed in the engine of the recalled vehicles may fracture. This causes the engine to stall and can potentially end to an accident. The springs with issues are responsible for keeping engine valves incapable during the fuel combustion process. Subaru revealed that the vehicles' owners affected by the recall will receive details through the mail starting in December. Part of the information will say the time needed to fix the engine part would take over 12 hours.
On Thursday, Toyota announced a completely separate voluntary recall of the Scion xA vehicles. They discovered an issue with the vehicles' airbag, which motivated the recall of over 17,000 Scion xA vehicles manufactured between the year 2004 and 2006.
The recall notice revealed the airbag experiencing an electrical shortage that might damage the circuits in the system. Once this happens, the airbag warning lights might illuminate and the airbags, seatbelt pre-tensioners will be deactivated. As for the electrical shortage, this will cause the airbags to deploy. Obviously, these conditions will increase the risk of an accident to the vehicle.
Subaru decided to cut its operating profit expectations for the company's Japanese financial year for the first six months by 49 billion yen or can be converted to $434 million. They chose this call a week before the recall happened. The official spokesman of Subaru said the company is now expecting an operating profit of 61 billion yen or converted as $541 million for the period of April to September.
