Honda Motors recalls many other cars with defective airbags

Japanese car major, Honda Motor has been the parts manufacturer Takata’s largest client, till recently. And when the Japanese parts supplier goofed up with lethally defective safety equipment parts in massive numbers, Honda Motors bore the brunt of it. While in the massive faulty Takata air bag recall, a good number of global auto giants are involved, Honda is the worst hit among all these. While the Takata air bag related recall practice gets stretched out, Honda Motors is also troubled with an immense number of vehicles that need to be called back and replaced with new air bags.

As per a report, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has said that the faulty air bag inflators from Takata were manufactured between the period of the year 2006 and 2010. The Japanese auto major has claimed that some of the Honda Acura as well as other Honda vehicle models that were manufactured between the year 2005 and 2016 are being called back in order to check and replace the faulty Takata PSDI-5 driver’s side air bag inflators, which makes for a massive total 2.23 million vehicles.

As per the report, the recall letters will be send in by the middle of next month, while another letter will be sent when the required parts are available. Honda Motors’s latest recall is included in the total 2.23 million units.
The faulty Takata air bag initiated massive vehicle recall also include several other vehicle models from the global car majors such as Volkswagen AG, Kia Motors Corp, Mazda Motor Corp, Daimler AG and Volvo AB.

Honda Motors has earlier recalled more than 6 million vehicles in the US since the year 2008 to replace the faulty Takata inflators. More than 50 million vehicles have been already recalled in the world with around 24 million vehicles being only in the US, which made for the biggest ever car recall practice in the US.

Moreover, a defect has also been found in the computer components which control up to 5 million air bags in the vehicles globally.

Honda Motor has explained that this current recall is due to a faulty information report from Takata. The Japanese car maker has revealed that the involved vehicles include the Honda CR-V crossover from 2007-2011, the Honda Fit made from 2009 to 2014, the CR-Z coupe made between 2011and 2015, the Honda Ridgeline of the 2007-2014 models, the Insight hybrid manufactured in 2010-2014 and also the Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell sedan manufactured from 2010 to 2014. A specific list of vehicles involved in the recall is yet to be made.

A Honda spokesperson said that the company’s negotiations with the relevant authorities in each of the recall involved countries are pending till now. The VIN search of the Honda vehicles that are involved in this recall is also thus not possible just as now, and the worried Honda vehicle owners will have to wait for some time to know if they need to rush to the Honda dealerships to get the dangerously faulty safety equipment replaced.