RECALL ALERT: Toyota Expands Airbag Recall, Warns Passengers

Toyota announced Monday that it's re-notifying owners of about 218,000 previously recalled vehicles with front air bags supplied by Takata, and that they are adding 28,515 vehicles in high-humidity areas to that recall.

The Takata airbags can malfunction and blow shrapnel into front passengers' chests and faces.

The automaker is going so far as to warn those owners to not have any front-seat passengers until the air bags are fixed. In fact, they consider the passenger bags so dangerous that they are telling dealers to shut off the passenger bags if an owner comes in for recall repairs but the parts aren't yet available.

In those cases, dealers will then attach a warning label to the glove box door.

Takata supplies a myriad of automakers, and Honda previously reported two deaths linked to the Takata bag defect.

4.74 million U.S.-market vehicles sold by Toyota, Honda, Mazda, BMW, Nissan and General Motors have been recalled in 2013 and 2014 for faulty Takata bags.