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Following a number of inflator ruptures during testing, NHTSA announced it is expanding the recall to include cards from model year 2005-2008 Mazda 6s, 2002-2004 Honda CRVs, 2005-2008 Subaru Legacies and 2005-2008 Subaru Outbacks. They anticipate this will add “a few hundred thousand” vehicles to the recall population, which already includes cars from GM, Toyota, Ford, Honda, Mazda, Subaru, Nissan, Chrysler, BMW, and others. (To see if your car is affected, visit safercar.gov.)

Nationwide, just over one-quarter of all recalled vehicles have been repaired, Trowbridge said. In high-humidity regions, where risk is significantly higher, over one-third have been repaired. The pace of repairs is accelerating rapidly, he added.

Still, “every day an inflator remains in a vehicle means more risk to public safety,” Trowbridge said. \"We’ve got kind of a mess on our hands here.\"

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