Toyota recalls some 2.3 million vehicles globally after automobile safety systems manufacturer Takata had warned that further repairs of defective airbags may be needed.

This is the second recall for some 1.62 million vehicles which were recalled last year for faulty air bag deployment.

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Toyota had initially thought that the 2013 recall had fixed all possible faulty airbags but now finds that Takata might have given an incomplete list of units that needed to be called back for replacements.

Takata's Mexican plant, where most of the potentially faulty airbags were made back in 2001 and 2002 were found to have kept improper records, thus resulting in a repeat of last year's recall plus some 700,000 vehicles more.

It was revealed that chemicals were improperly stored in the mechanisms thereby affecting the explosive propellants in the inflators.

According to USA Today, upon impact, the airbag deploys from the bag with too much force, sending shrapnel to shoot out into the front passenger seat thereby propelling "fragments toward occupants," Toyota said.

However, although Toyota's recalls are solely based on faulty airbags on the vehicles' front passenger seat, an investigation by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) suggests that both the driver's seat and the front passenger seat may have faulty airbags including improper deployment and rupturing.

According to Reuters, Takata is cooperating with the NHTSA but declined to comment further on the matter.

Additionally, in an effort to prevent future accidents, Toyota announced that it would instruct its dealers to replace Takata-suspected inflators in all vehicles covered in last year's recalls.

"We have judged that it is more certain to replace everything," Naoki Sumino, a Toyota spokesman, said.

In 2013, Takata replaced its president with the first non-Japanese, although the firm said that it had nothing to do with the airbag issue.

The automobile safety systems manufacturer has been under fire in the U.S. for a number of corruption cases by executives.

Three senior Takata officials had pled guilty and had agreed to serve time in the U.S. for corruption offences in a price-fixing conspiracy in cars sold in the U.S.

Over the last 5 years, at least 7 million vehicles have been recalled for faulty and defective Takata airbags.

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