{
  "alert_number": "A12/1228/14",
  "url": "https://recallarchive.com/alert/a12-1228-14",
  "official_notice": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/124685",
  "safety_gate_published": "2014-08-05",
  "weekly_report": {
    "year": 2014,
    "week": 32,
    "date": "2014-08-15"
  },
  "category": "Motor vehicles",
  "product": "Passenger car",
  "brand_as_notified": "Alpina",
  "brands": [
    {
      "name": "Alpina",
      "url": "https://recallarchive.com/brand/alpina"
    }
  ],
  "name": "B3",
  "model": "Type: E46Model: B3 3.3EC type-approval number: B3S",
  "batch": null,
  "barcode_as_notified": null,
  "barcodes": [],
  "description": "Passenger car",
  "production_dates": "The vehicles in question were manufactured from May 1999 to August 2006.",
  "risk_type": "Injuries",
  "risk": "null The frontal passenger-side inflators could create excessive internal pressure during air bag deployment after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity environments. In a worst case scenario, the inflator may rupture, possibly causing injury. Even if the inflator does not rupture, due to the specific design of the frontal passenger-side airbag module with its integrated inflator, excessive internal pressure of the inflator could potentially result in an increased risk of airbag-induced injuries in a deployment event.",
  "risk_level": "Serious risk",
  "measures": [
    {
      "measure": "Recall of the product from end users",
      "operator": "Other",
      "ordered": false,
      "from": null
    }
  ],
  "measures_as_published": "Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other\nCategory of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users\nDate of entry into force: Unknown",
  "company_recall_code": null,
  "recall_page": null,
  "online_marketplaces": [],
  "notifying_country": "Germany",
  "country_of_origin": "Germany",
  "alert_type": "Consumer",
  "counterfeit": false,
  "official_record": {
    "barcodes": [],
    "batches": [
      "The vehicles in question were manufactured from May 1999 to August 2006."
    ],
    "models": [
      "Type: E46 Model: B3 3.3 EC type-approval number: B3S"
    ]
  },
  "licence": "Weekly-report fields CC0 1.0; official_record and counterfeit: © European Union, CC BY 4.0",
  "source": "EU Safety Gate. recallarchive is independent and not affiliated with the European Commission; the official notice is authoritative."
}