China carried out a recall of 4.3 million vehicles, a high number for a country that does not have the habit of calling vehicles to the workshop. The action was not motivated by defects in the cars, but rather by the presence of retractable electric door latches.
Retractable electric door latches are the center of the issue. China considered that these components represent a sufficient safety problem to justify a massive recall of millions of vehicles.
In Europe, the situation is different. The same retractable electric door latches continue to be sold without any type of limitation or restriction, even after China made this drastic decision.
While China acts preventively with one of the largest recall campaigns in its automotive history, Europe remains in a studying phase of the situation, without yet having taken similar measures regarding this component.
