Chery Rear Axle Recall Expands to Australia and Indonesia as Fallout Grows
Chery's rear axle recall has expanded again, with Chery Motor Australia announcing a recall today for Omoda 5 models built between January 11 and December 31, 2023, and Indonesia calling back the same model. The defect centers on rear axle assemblies from one supplier where a weld may have insufficient strength and could crack or tear, risking axle detachment on torsion beam cars. The campaign began in China on November 6 with 53,882 vehicles and reached South Africa on Tuesday with 23,667. In Malaysia, where an Omoda 5 axle detached on the road last month for the second time, regulators have suspended the model's type approval, halting new registrations, and Chery chairman Yin Tongyue has publicly apologized. Affected axles will be inspected by production code and replaced where they fall in the defective batch.
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