WASHINGTON — Common Motors should recall 5.9 million autos with Takata airbag inflators after a U.S. security company stated Monday it had rejected the automaker’s petition to keep away from the callback.

The Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration stated GM should recall the 2007-2014 vans and SUVs as a result of the inflators “are vulnerable to the identical kind of explosion after long-term publicity to excessive warmth and humidity as different recalled Takata inflators.” GM has it might value it $1.2 billion if it had been required to exchange airbag inflators it had sought to keep away from fixing.

GM stated it will adjust to the order.

“Though we consider a recall of those autos just isn’t warranted based mostly on the factual and scientific file, NHTSA has directed that we substitute the airbag inflators within the autos in query,” GM stated in a press release. “Primarily based on knowledge generated by way of unbiased scientific analysis carried out over a number of years, we disagree with NHTSA’s place.  Nevertheless, we’ll abide by NHTSA’s choice and start taking the mandatory steps.”

The defect, which leads in uncommon cases to airbag inflators rupturing and sending probably lethal steel fragments flying, prompted the most important automotive recall in U.S. historical past of about 63 million inflators. Worldwide, about 100 million inflators by 19 main automakers had been recalled.

The recall contains some Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Silverado, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, GMC Sierra and GMC Yukon autos constructed over an eight-year interval.

In complete, 18 U.S. deaths have been reported tied to Takata airbag inflators — although none in GM autos.

Up to now, 15 U.S. deaths have been reported in Honda autos, two in Ford Motor Co. autos and one in a BMW since 2009.