On October 6th, in Johor Bahru city, Malaysia, a Chery OMODA 5, a Chinese-made Chery car, had its entire rear axle beam along with both wheels fell onto the road surface. A similar incident involving the same model of Chery car occurred back in 2024.
According to AsiaOne, on Tuesday, October 6th, near the Tebrau AEON Mall in Johor Bahru, a rare accident occurred involving a Chery sports utility vehicle (SUV) where its rear axle and wheels detached from the vehicle.
The viral video footage circulating online shows the rear axle of the car still connected to both wheels, fallen behind the vehicle.
Luckily, it appears that no one was injured in the incident.
As of now, both the official Chery representatives in Malaysia and the local police have not issued any statement or response regarding the incident.
The video has gone viral on overseas social media platforms, sparking discussions:
“Mind-blowing.” “When you see such a car, avoid getting too close.” “For low-end torsion beam models, this is what happens when wheels fall off. If it were an independent suspension, half a wheel would have flown off.”
“Buying a car and getting a barbell as a gift, just enjoy the joke.”
Blogger Jiang Zhao posted the video on Facebook, stating: “I have always said it. Chinese cars are not worth buying. You all should not listen.”
“Some netizens in the UK said: “Luckily I saw this, a few days ago I was considering buying a British version of Chery, after all, at 20,000 pounds + 0% interest rate, this price Audis can’t match. And I thought being sold to us foreign adults, the quality should be good, but now I realize Chinese products are still Chinese products.”
Someone commented: “This car can’t even sell domestically, but it’s being exported, and so many people are buying it. Are they really sacrificing everything for cheap prices?”
Another netizen said: “BYD cars are not much better either.”
This is not the first time Chery cars have been involved in such incidents.
In 2024, a similar incident of axle fracture occurred with Chery OMODA 5, due to a component supplier’s failure to properly calibrate the welding nozzle when replacing the spot welding robotic arm, leading to equipment malfunctions. The affected vehicles with defective rear axles were those produced on August 15, 2023. Chery Malaysia recalled 600 vehicles that could potentially be affected by this issue.
Chery’s Ruihu 5x (known as Tiggo 4Pro in some overseas markets) shares or bears a high resemblance to OMODA 5 in chassis platform and many suspension components. After the axle-breaking incident involving OMODA 5 in Malaysia in late April 2024, Chery headquarters issued an additional recall of 3,037 Ruihu 5x vehicles in the Chinese mainland market in June of the same year.