Honda Australia has announced two recalls involving a total of 130,000 cars – again over airbags made by Japanese parts maker Takata Corp – according to CarAdvice. The defective inflators have been the source of a series of massive recalls worldwide since the problem surfaced in 2008.
This time, two recalls have been announced Down Under – the largest of these affects 109,551 vehicles, including 2004-2007 year Accord Euro sedans (not the global version that we get), 2004-2005 Civics, 2002-2008 CR-Vs and 2004-2009 Jazz hatches.
On these cars, the passenger airbag inflator wafers may have an increased potential for moisture intrusion, increasing the risk of the assembly rupturing during an inflation. This could result in metallic fragments that may strike the occupants, injuring or killing them.
A separate recall – also involving faulty inflators, this time on the driver’s side – affects 22,224 units of the 2004-2005 Civic, 2002-2008 CR-V and 2004-2009 Jazz.
The recalls are part of a larger global effort announced last week, involving both driver (1.67 million vehicles) and front passenger (3.22 million vehicles) airbags on a total of 4.89 million vehicles produced between 2002-2008. Honda has said it will replace the driver-side inflators with those made by Autoliv and Daicel, while the inflators on the passenger-side will be swapped for ones from Daicel and Takata.
On the local front, a source at Honda Malaysia has said that the company will issue a recall sometime this week – the automaker has previously said that it would announce regional recalls locally, so it appears these are starting to flow out. The local recall will follow a similar one issued by UMW Toyota last week, involving 97,000 Toyota vehicles assembled between 2001 and 2007.
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Honda Malaysia so slow at recall…should be like Toyota…
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OMG…Honda will say we r busy selling HRV, will slowly recall…UMW sales no good, so can recall faster…lol
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No recall doesn’t mean problem free. You don’t do body checkup doesn’t mean you won’t get cancer.
Recall also no use, that owner might ady die because of the faulty airbags
No recall? Do you mean Toyota?
from our experience with my wife’s crv – normal service is top notch. but for defects and problems – 0/10. aircond had to be fixed 4 times. and they refused to admit it is defective. don’t want to replace it. instead they insisted it’s part of wear and tear.
charged us a bomb almost 4k. and yet after that, it malfunctioned and overheated. when i kicked a fuss, only then they decided to take action and replaced the whole thing and the damaged compressor because of the overheating. and yet, we already lost our rm4k. i doubt if we’d ever get a honda again.
The previous gen CRV is known to have an air cond design flaw, where some part of an overheated compressor will burst and spread shrapnel all over the AC system. The aircond will not blow cold air anymore and there will be some rattling sound coming from it.
You not only need to replace the compressor but also flush the whole system off the debris, most probably by replacing EVERY major part (or having an extremely dedicated technician to clean up and hope he did not miss anything).
Unfortunately, since this is a design flaw that Honda won’t admit and fix, this will happen again and again and again.
In US this has brought a class action suit where Honda settled by paying off like 40mill. Not by admitting guilt, mind you.
Never seen a Kimchi massive recall. Maybe many owners already rest in pieces.
Wonder Proton airbag from which manufacturer???
Autoliv Hirotako
Last year Honda already recall, now recall again ?
What about Perodua? Daihatsu specs. Airbags from?
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