Honda Cars India Ltd. (HCIL) is recalling 190,578 of its cars for an airbag inflator defect. The company announced a voluntarily replacement campaign of Takata passenger front airbag inflators in 190,578 of its vehicles on July 14, 2016. These vehicles consist of the previous generation Accord, CR-V, Civic, City and Jazz. This is a part of Honda’s precautionary global recall campaign which has been running for a few years now to replace faulty Takata front airbag inflators.
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Honda dealerships across the country will carry out these replacements free of cost in a phased manner. The replacement campaign for CR-V and Civic models will begin immediately while the replacement of inflators for other models will begin in September 2016. Honda will communicate with the customers directly to inform them regarding the replacement campaign. Customers can log on to www.hondacarindia.com to check if their vehicles are covered under the campaign by submitting their 17 digit Vehicle Identification Number.
Model
Manufacturing Period
No of Affected Vehicles
Accord
2003 – 2011
22,483
CR-V
2009 - 2011
1,514
Civic
2007
2
13,603
City
2008 - 2011
137,270
Jazz
15,706
Total
190,578
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