PlainRecordsMCLAREN MP4-12C SPIDER: AIR BAGS: FRONTAL
- What can happen
- An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
- Remedy
- McLaren will notify owners, and dealers will replace the air bag inflators, free of charge. The recall began November 13, 2017. Owners may contact McLaren customer service at 1-646-429-8916.
- Potentially affected
- 654
Completion rate: 87.3% of the 654 vehicles potentially affected, the share the maker has reported to NHTSA as remedied, as listed in NHTSA's recalls data (updated Nov. 12, 2026). A recall protects people only when the repair is done.
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- Date (report received by NHTSA)
- Jan. 9, 2017
- Filed by
- McLaren Automotive Incorporated
- Vehicles
- MCLAREN MP4-12C SPIDER (2012)
- Component
- AIR BAGS › FRONTAL › PASSENGER SIDE › INFLATOR MODULE
- Description of the defect
- McLaren Automotive Incorporated (McLaren) is recalling certain 2012 MP4-12C vehicles originally sold, or ever registered, in the states of Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan), and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These vehicles are equipped with certain air bag inflators assembled as part of the passenger frontal air bag modules used as original equipment or replacement equipment. In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the front air bags, these inflators may rupture due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to absolute humidity and temperature cycling.
- Potentially affected
- 654
- What can happen
- An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
- Remedy
- McLaren will notify owners, and dealers will replace the air bag inflators, free of charge. The recall began November 13, 2017. Owners may contact McLaren customer service at 1-646-429-8916.
- Recall notes
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
- Owner notification date
- Nov. 13, 2017
- Recall type
- V (vehicle)
- Influenced by
- ODI
- Recall number
- 17V005000
How this defect works
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What the notice says to do (the remedy, in its words)
“McLaren Automotive Incorporated (McLaren) is recalling certain 2012 MP4-12C vehicles originally sold, or ever registered, in the states of Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan), and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These vehicles are equipped with certain air bag inflators assembled as part of the passenger frontal air bag modules used as original equipment or replacement equipment. In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the front air bags, these inflators may rupture due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to absolute humidity…” “An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.”MCLAREN AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE recall, NHTSA recall record, 2017-01-09. The caption and the remedy steps are the record's own words.
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This recall among the others
- MCLAREN: 1 other recall or notice on this site in the three years before this one (from Jan. 10, 2014).
Counted from the agency records on this site, as on Statistics: a recall event once, by its first notice.
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Cite this record
NHTSA recall record 17V005000, Jan. 9, 2017. PlainRecords' title: "MCLAREN MP4-12C SPIDER: AIR BAGS: FRONTAL." PlainRecords, https://plainrecords.com/recall/vehicle/17v005000/ (as of the day it was built).At each build a sample of records from each source is compared with the agency's published file and the page; every correction is public. Drawings are chosen by software that reads the record. Built daily. How we check · Corrections