{"id":1510,"date":"2025-07-15T04:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/1510\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T04:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:11:38","slug":"auto-advice-if-you-own-a-citroen-c3-2009-2016-or-ds3-2009-2019-do-not-drive-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/1510\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto advice: If you own a Citroen C3 (2009-2016) or DS3 (2009-2019), do not drive it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nOur motoring expert explains why some Citroen owners need to have their airbags replaced urgently and how to arrange a free repair\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The safety crisis centres on defective airbags, used in millions of vehicles worldwide and manufactured by the now-bankrupt Japanese firm, Takata. Stock photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/17e75a8c-e094-4e6c-9aff-73df024be989.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The safety crisis centres on defective airbags, used in millions of vehicles worldwide and manufactured by the now-bankrupt Japanese firm, Takata. Stock photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What exactly is the Takata airbag issue?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The safety crisis centres on defective airbags, used in millions of vehicles worldwide and manufactured by the now-bankrupt Japanese firm, Takata. These airbags contain ammonium nitrate, a volatile compound that can degrade over time or when exposed to moisture, potentially turning airbags into dangerous explosives. To date, this defect has caused at least 35 deaths worldwide, including one in France in June 2025, and over 400 serious injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our motoring expert explains why some Citroen owners need to have their airbags replaced urgently and how to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,1211,59,1210,1212,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-citroen","tag-gb","tag-geraldine-herbert","tag-life-magazine","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}