Japanese car maker Honda Motor just like its fellow Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor, has been troubled with faulty airbags issue for quite some time now. Every now and then, the Japanese car makers including Nissan are known to recall their cars in order to fix some defective part or the other, but the most common malfunctioning part has been the important safety feature – airbags.
Now, the Japanese car major’s Indian subsidiary Honda Cars India will be making a huge vehicle recall. The company will be recalling about 2.24 lakh vehicles from the domestic car market of India in order to fix the problem of faulty airbags. The recalled Honda vehicles in India which have the defective airbags problem include the Honda CR-V premium sports utility vehicle, the Honda Civic and Honda City premium sedan models and the Honda Jazz premium hatchback model. All the mentioned recalled vehicle models from the house of Honda were manufactured between the years of 2003 and 2012.
This will be Honda Cars India’s largest such recall exercise till date. The car major will be carrying out this recall drive in India in order to check and replace the faulty airbags that have malfunctioning inflators.
This major vehicle recall in India by Honda Cars India is actually a part of its Japanese parent company’s global recall initiative in order to replace the defective airbags. As per the company statement, Honda Cars India will voluntarily replace the airbag inflators of 2,23,578 vehicle units of the previous generation models of the CR-V, Civic, City and the Jazz in India.
This massive recall initiative will be covering 13,073 units of the Honda CR-V that were manufactured between 2004 and 2011; 54,290 units of the Honda Civic premium sedan made between 2003 and 2012; 1,40,508 units of the very popular Honda City premium sedan manufactured between 2007 and 2012; and 15,707 units of the Honda Jazz premium hatchback that were rolled out between 2009 and 2011, add the company statement.
Honda Cars India also said that the replacement procedure will be carried out free of charges at all the authorized dealerships of the company across the country in a phased manner, beginning from 12th of October, 2015 and the customers will be directly contacted by the company.
Honda Motor had announced that the company is going to recall more than two million vehicles to replace the defective airbags that were manufactured by Japanese auto parts supplier Takata Corp.
Various car makers in India have been recalling the vehicles to fix the safety issues ever since the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) passed the voluntary recall policy in July 2012 to improve the safety of the Indian cars.
A total of 10,85,064 vehicle units have been recalled in the domestic India car market so far by several car manufacturing companies operating in the country, ever since SIAM initiated the recall policy in a bid to improve the safety of the Indian car buyers.
