The 1996 Porsche 911 Carrera has 3 recalls, the most serious being an airbag that can deploy without warning while driving, potentially injuring the driver.
Voltage spikes from ordinary electrical activity, like the horn relay cycling, can trigger the driver's airbag to fire unexpectedly, with the risk heightened in hot and humid conditions. On the exterior, exhaust tail pipe cover sleeves on certain vehicles may have been welded with only two attachment points instead of four, allowing the cover to detach at speed and become a hazard for other vehicles or pedestrians. There is also a label recall affecting the passenger side mirror, where the warning text about object distance was printed in the wrong font size, which can leave drivers misjudging how close vehicles appear in that mirror.