Recall Alert: VinFast VF8 – Kelley Blue Book

VinFast has issued a recall for 284 VF8 SUVs from model years 2022 to 2024 because their airbags may not deploy in an accident. Vinfast still has most of the affected cars in inventory, but the company believes 52 of them may be in customers’ driveways.

The company told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: “Certain VF8 models may have left the manufacturing facility with inert airbag inflators.” Without a functioning inflator, an airbag cannot do its job. “If a VinFast VF8 equipped with an inert airbag is involved in an accident in which the inert airbag should deploy, it will not deploy,” the company explains.

Engineers sometimes use inert gas generators in pre-production vehicles during testing. However, inert gas generators are not designed for use in production vehicles.

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The company has “imposed a worldwide delivery and sales stop for the affected VF8 vehicles.”

VinFast states that it is not aware of any injuries or accidents related to this issue.

The company will replace all affected car airbags with modules equipped with active gas generators.

Automakers recall many cars to fix safety defects, sometimes more than once. They try to notify every owner and ask them to bring the vehicle in for repairs, but rarely reach everyone. Millions of vehicles on American roads are subject to free repairs as part of the recall. To find out if your car is one of them, use the simple VIN tool in our Recall Center.