Vehicles still equipped with defective Takata airbags that will be presented to the technical control since January 1, 2026 must be automatically subject to a counterigency, the Ministry of Transportation to the AFP said Wednesday.
The systematic start-up of vehicles concerned with a “Stop Drive”, an urgent reminder of not driving, is the object of “a draft decree that was subject to public consultations (completed in July) and is now subject to the examination of the State Council,” he specified. The objective is an entry into force on January 1, 2026, according to the Ministry.
Responsible for many fatal accidents worldwide due to explosions during harmless clashes, takata defective airbags are subject to mass reminders. In France, 1.7 million vehicles of all brands are affected by a “driving stop” withdrawal, which implies that it no longer circulates before replacement -Gratuit of Airbags.
The measure planned for the early 2026 “The objectives, as part of the Takata Airbags reminders, to guarantee the effective reparation of the vehicles in question during technical control,” said the ministry.
“Market skills”
When it is in force, a vehicle still equipped with an airbag takata that will be presented to the technical control will receive an opinion that involves an immobilization waiting for the change of defective equipment.
The General Inspection of the Environment and Sustainable Development (IGEDD), an independent authority, had declared at the end of July the replacement of Takata Airbags as a condition to validate technical control, to accelerate reminders of “impulse stop” in progress.
In fact, this condition would avoid the resale of these dangerous vehicles in the second -hand market and allow “hiding the market in a system where traceability is not good,” he explained.
Technical controllers are supposed to inform vehicles subject to a retirement. But vehicles in question and their owners are sometimes difficult to identify, especially due to the deficiencies of the registration archive (SIV).
The IGEDD also stressed in its report given to the Minister of Transportation the “lack of response of certain owners who do not perceive the importance of the message” and “the absence of incentives, or even obligation, to quickly change defective airbags.”
Although rumors about a generalized hardening of technical control on January 1, 2026 have been transmitted in recent days on social networks and in the press, the Ministry emphasized on Wednesday that the measure aimed at Takata Airbags was the only one planned to date.
Source: BFM TV
