BERLIN — Volkswagen Group has issued a recall for premium subsidiary Audi that impacts greater than 150,000 A3s within the U.S. on issues that their passenger airbags may not activate, in keeping with a submitting to the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration.

The recall is predicted to have an effect on 153,152 models of the compact automobile that had been constructed between 2015 and 2020, together with the sedan, e-tron and cabriolet variants, in addition to sure S3 sedans.

The system that detects whether or not the passenger seat is occupied may malfunction and change off the airbag even when an individual is sitting there, the submitting stated.

VW will write to homeowners of the affected automobiles by Could 21 and can contact them once more as soon as an answer to the issue has been discovered.