Summary
The McLaren MP4-12C Spider has 3 recalls, the most serious being a Takata passenger airbag inflator defect across 2012-2013 model years where the inflator can rupture and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.
The airbag issue spans two overlapping campaigns. The broader one covers 2012-2013 vehicles sold or registered anywhere in the US. A separate filing specifically targets 2012 models registered in high-humidity states including Alabama, California, Florida, Hawaii, and Texas, as well as several US territories, where moisture exposure accelerates the risk. The underlying hazard is the same in both cases: a ruptured inflator that turns the airbag housing into a source of metal shrapnel directed at the passenger seat. On 2012-2014 models originally sold or currently registered in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, the wiper motor can fail and leave the driver with no windshield clearing capability in rain, reducing visibility to the point where a crash becomes more likely.
