The recall is related to Takata supplied airbags.
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Takata has agreed to recall about 69 million air bag inflators in the U.S.by the end of 2019.
At least ten people around the world have been killed by the faulty airbags.
The Italian auto maker’s local arm has issued a bulletin with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission overnight, announcing “a possible nonconformity within an outsourced component contained in the passenger side airbag”.
Audi doesn’t know when the recall will begin, but dealers will eventually replace the passenger frontal airbag inflators.
Michigan-based air bag maker Key Safety Systems and new Chinese parent Ningbo Joyson Electronic Corp are discussing a potential investment in Takata with the Japanese company’s investment banker Lazard, Key Chief Executive Jason Luo said on Thursday.
In total, 15 automakers have recalled almost 16.4 million vehicles in the United States in the last two weeks stemming from Takata’s decision in May to declare another 35 million to 40 million inflators with ammonium nitrate defective by 2019.
Automakers are ramping up recalls of Takata air bag inflators after the auto parts maker, under pressure from the U.S. government, agreed last month to declare more of its airbags as defective in the United States.
Takata uses ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion that inflates air bags in a crash.
But NHTSA spokesman Bryan Thomas said GM has filed paperwork declaring the inflators defective and they will be recalled.
On Takata’s Airbag.com website, it states while the recall is National, it is working to fix those vehicles in, “geographic areas with persistent heat and high absolute humidity”.
But Foxx said he agrees that automakers should disclose future recalls in new vehicles and said he would raise the issue with government lawyers. In December, a driver of a 2006 Ford Ranger was killed in SC when the inflator ruptured in a crash.
The vehicle crashed into a truck on a freeway in October and the air bag burst improperly, although the one for the driver’s seat worked properly, according to Nissan Motor Co., which also said it is cooperating with the investigation.
“Ferrari is unaware of field incidents involving the subject passenger inflators on any vehicles to-date”. Data provided by LMC Automotive indicate GM built 4.9 million large pickups and large SUVs in the years 2007-11. “These vehicles are not now subject to recall”.
Audi is handling the recall as other automakers have, by recalling certain vehicles in “zones” of the country.
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A recalled Takata airbag inflator is shown after it was removed at the AutoNation Honda dealership service department in Miami, Florida, United States on June 25, 2015.
