Premium car-maker Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) on Friday said it would carry out preventive replacement of passenger side airbag inflators of 575 units of CR-V manufactured in 2004 and driver side airbag inflators of 10,805 units of Accord manufactured from 2003 to 2007.
This will be part of Honda’s global recall/safety improvement campaign concerning airbag inflators, the company said in a statement.
Additionally, the passenger side airbag inflator of one unit of Civic of 2004 make will also be replaced. There has been no report of any incident related to this part in India, it added.
The replacement will be done free of cost at HCIL dealerships across India from June 4 in a phased manner and the company will communicate with the customers directly.
Customers can also check whether their car will be covered under this campaign by submitting their 17-character alpha-numeric vehicle identification number (VIN) on the special microsite created on the company’s website.
Over the last one year, the company has recalled many vehicles because of similar problems. In June last, Honda Motor Co had announced recall of over 20 lakh vehicles globally over potentially flawed airbag inflators made in 2000-02.
It recently also announced the recall of another 4.89 million vehicles globally to fix the airbag issue.
In July 2014, HCIL had recalled 1,338 units of Accord and CR-V, manufactured between 2002 and 2003, to replace faulty inflators in passenger side airbags.
In October, too, it recalled 2,338 units of its hatchback Brio, compact sedan Amaze and CR-V again, manufactured between September 2011 and July 2014, to replace faulty inflators.