Nissan has warned house owners of older autos to drop driving vehicles outfitted with recalled, unrepaired Takata airbags the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration introduced Wednesday.

The NHTSA mentioned the Japanese carmaker’s “Do Not Drive” alert applies to 83,920 vehicles. The affected vehicles embody 2002-2006 Nissan Sentra, 2002-2004 Nissan Pathfinder and 2002-2003 Infiniti QX4 autos that will have Takata airbags that had been recalled in 2020.

Nissan’s inventory was down practically 3% throughout Wednesday’s session following the warning.

“NHTSA is urging all car house owners to instantly examine to see if their car has an open Takata airbag recall,” the NHTSA mentioned in an announcement. “If in case you have one in all these autos, don’t drive it till the restore is accomplished and the faulty airbag is changed.”

Nissan and Infiniti will supply affected house owners free towing and cell restore, in addition to loaner vehicles in choose areas. Infiniti is a division of Nissan.

“As a result of age of the autos outfitted with faulty Takata airbag inflators, there’s an elevated danger the inflator might explode throughout an airbag deployment, propelling sharp metallic fragments which might trigger critical damage or demise,” a Nissan spokesperson instructed CNBC in an announcement.

Based on the NHTSA, 27 individuals in america had been confirmed to have been killed by a faulty Takata airbag that exploded. No less than 400 others have allegedly sustained accidents, in line with the NHTSA.

No less than 67 million Takata airbag inflators have been recalled within the nation, and greater than 100 million have been recalled worldwide, making it one of many largest auto security callbacks in historical past.

In 2017, Takata filed for chapter safety in Japan and the U.S. after agreeing to pay $1 billion in felony penalties tied to its allegedly fraudulent conduct within the gross sales of its faulty airbag inflators.