I’m starting to think that there’s some kind of conspiracy to make us all take public transportation. In addition to Toyota’s massive recall last month and the Honda Fit fire hazard recall that followed, Honda is recalling another 438,000 cars due to an airbag risk.
According to The Washington Post, Honda Motor Co said it would replace an airbag deflator that could rupture and send shards toward the driver in an accident. The move follows a separate recall of 646,000 cars less than two weeks ago for a faulty window switch that engulfed a Jazz subcompact in flames in South Africa, killing a child.
Most of the affected cars are in the United States, as all of them were manufactured at Honda plants in the U.S. and Canada. Here’s the list of vehicles affected by the recall: 2001 and 2002 model-year Accord, Civic, Odyssey, CR-V, Pilot and 2002 Acura TL and CL vehicles in the United States.
Honda had previously filed recalls for the airbag problem on two separate occasions, in November 2008 and June 2009, covering a total 510,000 vehicles. Ongoing investigation had determined the defect was caused by insufficient stamping pressure during the production of the inflator propellant and not by excessive moisture intake by the propellant as previously believed, Honda said.
If your car has been recalled, Honda recommends that you wait until they received a recall notice to go to a dealership and have the inflator for the steering-wheel airbag replaced.
