{
  "owners": null,
  "title": "Japanese recall 1231960 (smart), 2021: 549 vehicles",
  "url": "https://carsmultiverse.com/japan/recall-1231960/",
  "summary": "MLIT recall 1231960, スマート DBA-453342, DBA-453344, DBA-453444, DBA-453042, 2021/03/24.",
  "excerpt": "スマート Dba-453342, Dba-453344, Dba-453444, Dba-453042. Published by MLIT as 1231960 on 24 March 2021. Part: コンピュータ(ｶﾞｽ･騒. What the notice says エンジンコントロールユニットの制御プログラムにおいて、車載式故障診断装置（ｏｂｄ）の制御プログラムが不適切なため、適切な故障診断が行われないおそれがある。 Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at MLIT , or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on. The two passages above are quoted in Japanese because that is the language the ministry published them in. This site keeps the wording a register had when it was read, and does not translate a safety notice. Source: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism website （出典：国土交通省ウェブサイト）, used under the Public Data License 1.0. This site gathered the record, grouped it by notification number and set it in English around the ministry's own words; the notice itself is unaltered. CarsMultiverse is not the ministry and not a safety authority. To act on this notice, use the ministry's own document . The Japanese register on this site スマート is named on 11 notices in the copy of MLIT’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time. 2205980 · 27 August 2020 · Dba-453042 · コンピュータ(エンジ 1226681 · 21 June 2018 · Dba-453044 · コンピュータ(エンジ 1226682 · 21 June 2018 · Dba-453044 · コンピュータ(エンジ 1225430 · 28 September 2017 · Dba-453042, Dba-453044, Dba-453342 · 駐車ケーブル/ロッド 1225450 · 28 September 2017 · Dba",
  "register": {
    "authority": "MLIT",
    "country": "Japan",
    "index": "https://carsmultiverse.com/japan/"
  },
  "datePublished": "2026-09-06T09:26:03+00:00",
  "dateModified": "2026-09-06T09:26:03+00:00",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "citation": "CarsMultiverse, \"Japanese recall 1231960 (smart), 2021: 549 vehicles\", https://carsmultiverse.com/japan/recall-1231960/, licensed CC BY 4.0.",
  "note": "CarsMultiverse is an independent record, not a safety authority. To act on a recall, use the official register."
}