Honda is recalling more than 750,000 vehicles due to the risk of improperly deploying airbags.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides more details in the following document: report Front and knee-level airbags can deploy even if infants or small people are present.
“In the event of a collision, passenger front airbags and knee airbags may deploy despite the presence of an occupant, and their deployment must be restrained, increasing the risk of injury,” the report said. Says.
The cause of seat weight sensor error is special.
“Due to a natural disaster at a tier 2 supplier’s manufacturing plant, the tier 1 supplier temporarily changed the substrate material for the seat weight sensor’s printed circuit board, but its intended use had not been fully verified.” reports read. “Using alternative substrates puts additional stress on the printed circuit board, which can lead to capacitor cracks and internal shorts.”
In this case, the natural disaster could be referring to the historic floods that occurred in East Asia in 2020. Autopianfloods may have caused secondary suppliers in China (producing small parts) to be unable to supply materials for an extended period of time.
The paper also theorized that the Tier 1 supplier could be “Illinois-based Aisin Electronics, a subsidiary of Japanese supplier giant Aisin and listed in the recall notice.”
Nevertheless, auto dealers will be required to “replace seat weight sensors with good parts” for a wide range of Honda vehicle owners.
According to reports AL.comthe list of vehicles includes:
2020-2022 Honda Accord
2020-2021 Honda Accord Hybrid
2020 Honda Civic 2-Door
2020-2022 Honda Civic 4-Door
2021-2022 Honda Civic Hatchback
2021 Honda Civic Type R
2020-2021 Honda CR-V
2020-2021 Honda CR-V Hybrid
2020 honda fit
2020-2022 Honda HR-V
2021 Honda Insight
2020-2022 Honda Odyssey
2020-2022 Honda Pilot
2020-2021 Honda Passport
2020-2021 Honda Ridgeline
2020 Acura MDX
2022 Acura MDX
2020-2022 Acura RDX
2020-2021 Acura TLX
Unfortunately for Honda, only 1% of the 750,114 recalls may be affected by the defect. That means he only has 7,500 cars that could actually be affected, but of course it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Honda reportedly said in a statement that there have been 3,834 warranty claims to date, but there have been no reports of injuries or deaths related to the recall.as Reuters As noted, the recall dates back to June 2020.
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