final's TWS03R: 17 fires on earphones recalled 18 months earlier

final Inc., the Tokyo audio maker, opened a free collect-and-exchange in December 2024 for the TWS03R wireless earphones — six color variants whose lithium-polymer battery could burn.

The recalled earphones kept burning: the Consumer Affairs Agency has logged 17 major product accidents on the recalled product, including a fire in Saitama on June 18, 2026, during the recall period. The agency published the case on July 10, 2026.

Seventeen is not a tail, it is a fleet of small fires — each one an earphone case that stayed in a pocket or a bag instead of going back to the exchange counter.

The exchange was open but the fires continued; the real fix was reaching owners, not the remedy itself, so the archive counts 17 accidents as proof the recall failed.

The TWS03R's lithium-polymer battery could burn — 17 major product accidents on recalled units, including a Jun 18, 2026 fire in Saitama

The exchange opened Dec 2024 and is still running; 18 months in, the accidents continue — the unreached owners are the hazard now

final is a boutique audio brand — 17 fires on a niche earphone outweigh in accident count what mass brands log on millions of units

A recall that keeps logging fires is a reach-rate problem, not a remedy problem — the exchange counter was open while the pockets kept burning. Owners reached is the metric.