The faulty airbag has caused two serious injuries and a fatality in separate accidents, with 78,000 cars affected in the recall.
About 78,000 vehicles manufactured by Audi, BMW, Ford, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki and Toyota between 1996 and 2000 and fitted with the faulty airbags with NADI 5-AT inflators were supplied in Australia.
There is a serious safety risk the airbags may misdeploy in an accident, which may cause metal fragments to propel out of the airbag at high speed, causing serious injuries or death.Audi and BMW have already started voluntary recalls of affected vehicles, and the ACCC is calling on other suppliers to take urgent action to address the safety risk to consumers.Safety authorities in Australia have received reports of three incidents involving suspected misdeployments of the airbags.
Recognising the serious safety risk, BMW already started a voluntary recall of its affected cars, including offering hire cars and buying back vehicles and recommending that consumers do not drive their vehicle.ACCC chair Rod Sims said even though full details and appropriate remedies were still being worked out by the manufacturers, they were issuing the warning now to urge people not to use their car if it was affected by the potentially deadly airbag.
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