Porsche recalls more than 18K vehicles over airbag, rearview camera issues

More than 18,000 Porsche vehicles are being recalled due to airbag and rearview camera issues.Porsche Cars North America issued two recalls last week, one for 9,735 of its 2022-2023 Taycan sports cars and another for 8,571 of its 2024-2025 Macan electric crossovers, documents submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) showed. The recall report for the affected Taycans said a “manufacturing error” in their occupant classification system for “automatic airbag activation/deactivation” might cause the front passenger seat air bag to turn off. “An air bag that fails to deploy during a crash increases the risk of injury,” the NHTSA said.In the report, Porsche Cars North America pointed to the “crimp connection of the seat cushion heating mat at the transition of the connection cable to the heating wire” as being the source of the problem.Taycan owners affected by the recall will be able to get Porsche dealers to swap out the front passenger seat’s cushion for a “new optimized” one for free to fix the issue, the recall report said.For the recalled 2024-2025 Porsche Macan EVs, the recall addressed a “software issue that has since been corrected” that could lead to the rearview camera image not showing as the driver puts the vehicle in reverse, according to a separate NHTSA recall report.  Porsche also said in that report that a “subset” of the affected electric Macans “may also have insufficient bonding of the reverse camera housing, which can allow moisture intrusion which can also result in blurry reverse camera images in those vehicles.” “The vehicles subject to this recall will get a new software data set to resolve the wake-up and system communications issues, and reserve cameras will also be inspected and replaced as necessary to address any deficiencies with the camera housing bonds,” the NHTSA report for the Macans said. “The safety of our customers is of the utmost importance.For this...