Amit Panday
New Delhi: The maker of traditional motorcycles, Royal Enfield has issued a recall soon after pinpointing a defective ignition coil in bikes created and bought between December 2020 and April 2021, the company explained on Wednesday.
It explained that the recall workout would contain about 236,966 bikes across its Bullet, Basic and Meteor range of styles bought in India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
“Of these, the company will simply call in Meteor motorcycles created and bought between December 2020 and April 2021, and the Basic and Bullet created and bought between January and April 2021,” the company explained in a statement.
According to the company, the defective ignition coil can bring about misfiring, compromise vehicle performance and also could bring about an electric powered small circuit.
“The defect was found for the duration of routine interior tests and the situation has been obviously determined and isolated to specific batches of content sourced from our external provider between December 2020 and April 2021,” the company explained.
It included that every of the recalled bikes would be inspected and the defective portion would be changed, if essential.
The company estimates that much less than 10% of all bikes recalled in the explained workout would require substitution of the faulty ignition coil.
The provider teams across Royal Enfield’s dealerships would reach out to the owners of motorcycles with vehicle identification variety (VIN) that falls inside the producing interval outlined earlier mentioned.
When this is the to start with instance of Royal Enfield announcing a voluntary recall of its motorcycles with faulty pieces, its Bullet, Basic and Thunderbird range of motorcycles are known for persisting good quality problems.
In the earlier number of a long time, several automakers this kind of as Maruti Suzuki India, Hyundai, Honda, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Yamaha and others have issued voluntary vehicle remembers to fix the faulty pieces absolutely free of cost.
It is to be famous that this will come soon after the ministry of road transportation and highways (MoRTH) notified, in the Central Motor Auto Act, that a penalty of INR 10 lakh to one crore would be levied on automakers for offering defective vehicles and failing to undertake a voluntary recall.
Meanwhile, Royal Enfield explained that it follows stringent sourcing protocols and all its bikes are rigorously tested to worldwide validation benchmarks of good quality and durability.
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