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Honda is in the middle of a transformation focused on cutting costs. Even the F1 hybrid power unit program will be abandoned at the end of 2021 to pursue EVs and carbon neutrality, which says a lot about the Japanese automaker’s vision for the future. Be that as it may, the company founded by Soichiro Honda will lose millions of dollars as part of four recalls involving around 1.4 million vehicles sold in the United States.
The largest campaign of the lot is called 20V771000 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the issue boils down to a software malfunction. As it happens, no fewer than 737,233 units of the Accord and Insight from the 2018 to 2020 model years can exhibit an inoperative rearview camera, exterior lights, windshield wipers, and defroster.
Described as “intermittent or continuous disruptions in the communication between the Body Control Module (BCM) and other components,” the problem will be rectified from January 18th at authorized dealers at no charge to the customer. Twenty minutes or thereabouts should be enough for the dealer to re-flash the body control module with the new software.
Next up, Honda is calling back 268,652 units of the 2002 to 2006 model year CR-V compact crossover over a power window master switch that may fail. What’s wrong with that, you ask? Well, the Japanese automaker has received at least 16 warranty claims involving fire, seven field reports involving fire, and “87 reports of thermal events related to this issue.”
The remaining two recalls cover the same problem but different nameplates. In no particular order, the culprits are the 2013 to 2015 Accord, 2012 Civic Hybrid, 2007-2014 Fit, 2013-2015 Acura ILX, and 2013 ILX Hybrid.
220,000 plus 210,000 equals 430,000 vehicles that feature drive shafts with “improperly adhered protective coating.” In the Salt Belt States, de-icing agents used to maintain the roadway may corrode the drive shaft, and in turn, this condition may lead to the drive shaft breaking under load.
American Honda Motor received the first report of a broken drive shaft in an Acura ILX back in November 2017, and as of November 2020, the automaker has received 152 warranty claims and 10 field reports.
Described as “intermittent or continuous disruptions in the communication between the Body Control Module (BCM) and other components,” the problem will be rectified from January 18th at authorized dealers at no charge to the customer. Twenty minutes or thereabouts should be enough for the dealer to re-flash the body control module with the new software.
Next up, Honda is calling back 268,652 units of the 2002 to 2006 model year CR-V compact crossover over a power window master switch that may fail. What’s wrong with that, you ask? Well, the Japanese automaker has received at least 16 warranty claims involving fire, seven field reports involving fire, and “87 reports of thermal events related to this issue.”
The remaining two recalls cover the same problem but different nameplates. In no particular order, the culprits are the 2013 to 2015 Accord, 2012 Civic Hybrid, 2007-2014 Fit, 2013-2015 Acura ILX, and 2013 ILX Hybrid.
220,000 plus 210,000 equals 430,000 vehicles that feature drive shafts with “improperly adhered protective coating.” In the Salt Belt States, de-icing agents used to maintain the roadway may corrode the drive shaft, and in turn, this condition may lead to the drive shaft breaking under load.
American Honda Motor received the first report of a broken drive shaft in an Acura ILX back in November 2017, and as of November 2020, the automaker has received 152 warranty claims and 10 field reports.
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