Toyota Vietnam has announced that it will begin recalling 5,300 vehicles in the country as of November 3 over a fire risk caused by a power window defect in the Vios and Corolla models. Owners of such cars can bring their vehicles to dealers and authorized Toyota stations for repair and replacement, the company said. Faulty power window switches have been detected on 1,489 Corolla Altis vehicles that were manufactured and distributed by TMV from July 24 to December 31, 2008, and on 3,810 Vios cars manufactured between September 13, 2007 and December 31, 2008. The automaker said the electric window switch in the driver’s door in some models may begin to stick or become inoperable. If customers tried to fix it with commercially available lubricants, it could melt the switch assembly. It will take an hour to repair the fault in each vehicle, the company said. The Vietnam recall is part of a global campaign of Japan’s largest automaker, which will recall 7.43 million vehicles worldwide over the same defect. About 2.47 million vehicles will be recalled from the United States, AFP quoted a spokeswoman for the firm as saying. “Another 2.8 million cars will be recalled from Europe and China, while the remainder were spread over the world including Japan, Canada, Australia and the Middle East,” she said. Toyota has called back millions of other vehicles in recent years, which dealt a heavy blow to its once-stellar reputation for safety, according to an AFP report. This latest recall comes about two months after Toyota added two models to a controversial 2009 recall launched after floor mats became trapped under the accelerator and were linked to accidents that allegedly caused dozens of deaths, AFP said. Toyota's mishandling of the initial problem and other reports of sudden, unintended acceleration led to the recall of more than 12 million vehicles worldwide, a US congressional probe, more than $50 million in fines from US regulators and public apologies by its chief, according to AFP. The Japanese firm has, however, reclaimed the top spot as the world’s biggest car maker from General Motors and Volkswagen earlier in the year.