Tata Motors recalling its Nano to install fire safety measures

Posted on Nov 10, 2010

Tata Motors recalling its Nano to install fire safety measures to prevent the Tata Nano from catching fire. Tata Motors Managing Director ( India Operations) P M Telang said that some customers have been recalled and some were informed by them as there are 70,000 Nanos on the roads now.

Telang said Tata Motors recalling its Nano to install fire safety measures but We don’t know exactly how many vehicles will be recalled as we have to check how many Nanos have to be rectified. Yesterday on Nov 9th 2010, Tata Motors Group CEO and Managing Director Carl-Peter Forster had said that the auto maker planned to introduce additional safety features in the small car in the wake of reports of the car catching fire.

Inorder to prevent catching fire The company has taken up several corrective measures and will now offer cover tool on catalytic converter. It will also install fuse in electrical components to avoid short circuits,” he had said.

In August, a sixth incident of a Nano catching fire since the car was commercially launched in March 2009, was reported from the national Capital, three months after a company probe declared the car was “absolutely safe”.

In May, the company had declared that an expert team had found ‘no manufacturing defects’ in the Nano. The five previous incidents were reported from across the country, including Mumbai, Lucknow, Delhi and near Vadodara in Gujarat.

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