Honda has issued a recall that applies to over 303,000 examples of the Accord and the HR-V constructed throughout the 2023 and 2024 mannequin years. The autos included within the marketing campaign could have been constructed and not using a rivet that helps safe the entrance seatbelt pretensioner.
Assigned recall quantity 23V-782 by the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), the marketing campaign contains 303,770 items of the Accord and the HR-V. Honda hasn’t detailed exactly what number of examples of both mannequin are included within the marketing campaign, it merely supplied the entire variety of automobiles, nevertheless it estimates the difficulty is current in roughly 1% of the recalled fashions. Affected Accord fashions had been constructed between October 4, 2022, and October 14, 2023, whereas affected HR-V fashions had been manufactured from April 26, 2022, to October 14, 2023.
The model explains that “the entrance seat belt pretensioners had been assembled and not using a rivet securing the short connector and wire plate.” This can be a essential half that helps defend a automotive’s occupant throughout an accident. With out the rivet, the seatbelt won’t work as meant. Honda provides that “the set up of the rivet was skipped throughout meeting” and notes that it isn’t conscious of accidents or deaths linked to the issue.
Each entrance pretensioners are doubtlessly lacking a rivet, in line with NHTSA doc. Fortunately, it sounds just like the repair is comparatively easy: Honda will ask house owners of affected automobiles to drop by a certified vendor so {that a} technician can examine the seatbelt pretensioners. The half will likely be changed if it is discovered to be lacking a rivet. Homeowners who’ve already paid to get the difficulty fastened will likely be eligible to say a refund, although that is unlikely to have occurred contemplating the marketing campaign contains new and nearly-new automobiles which can be nonetheless beneath guarantee.
Honda will start notifying house owners of Accord and HR-V fashions included within the marketing campaign by mail beginning on January 8, 2024.