Honda
Honda is recalling greater than 750,000 autos manufactured between 2020 and 2022. Honda says {that a} weight sensor, which is supposed to disable the passenger airbags if the seat is occupied by a toddler or little one seat, won’t work correctly, permitting the airbags to deploy throughout a crash.
Publicity to humidity may cause a capacitor within the sensor to crack and leak, making it inoperable. The issue has been traced to a change within the base materials for the sensor’s printed circuit board—Honda’s tier 1 provider made the change when a pure catastrophe disrupted manufacturing on the tier 2 provider that usually offered the bottom materials. The modified circuit board was not correctly verified and “might enable further pressure to the printed circuit board that may result in a capacitor cracking and an inside brief circuit.”
A guaranty declare in August 2020 was Honda’s first inkling that it had an issue. Preliminary investigations turned up little, however the automaker stored receiving guarantee claims and in January 2024 determined to subject a recall. In whole it says it has had 3,834 guarantee claims for this subject between June 2020 and January 2024.
The sensor provider modified again to the unique circuit board materials in January 2022, however the issue impacts the next fashions:
- Acura MDX, mannequin years 2020, 2022
- Acura RDX, mannequin years 2020-2022
- Acura TLX, mannequin years 2020-2021
- Honda Accord, mannequin years 2020-2022
- Honda Accord Hybrid, mannequin years 2020-2021
- Honda Civic, mannequin years 2020-2022
- Honda Civic Kind-R, mannequin yr 2021
- Honda CR-V, mannequin years 2020-2021
- Honda CR-V Hybrid, mannequin years 2020-2021
- Honda Match, mannequin yr 2020
- Honda HR-V, mannequin years 2020-2022
- Honda Perception, mannequin yr 2021
- Honda Odyssey, mannequin years 2020-2022
- Honda Passport, mannequin years 2020-2021
- Honda Pilot, mannequin years 2020-2022
- Honda Ridgeline, mannequin years 2020-2021
The repair on this case is a brand new seat-weight sensor, which Honda will substitute freed from cost. Honda is anticipated to inform homeowners starting subsequent month.
