Honda has issued a recall that applies to over 303,000 examples of the Accord and the HR-V constructed through the 2023 and 2024 mannequin years. The automobiles included within the marketing campaign might have been constructed with no 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 models 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 full variety of vehicles, but it surely estimates the problem is current in roughly 1% of the recalled fashions. Affected Accord fashions have been constructed between October 4, 2022, and October 14, 2023, whereas affected HR-V fashions have been manufactured from April 26, 2022, to October 14, 2023.
The model explains that “the front seat belt pretensioners were assembled without a rivet securing the quick connector and wire plate.” It is a essential half that helps shield a automotive’s occupant throughout an accident. With out the rivet, the seatbelt won’t work as meant. Honda provides that “the installation of the rivet was skipped during assembly” and notes that it is not conscious of accidents or deaths linked to the issue.
Each entrance pretensioners are probably lacking a rivet, in keeping with NHTSA doc. Fortunately, it sounds just like the repair is comparatively easy: Honda will ask homeowners of affected vehicles to drop by a licensed supplier so {that a} technician can examine the seatbelt pretensioners. The half shall be changed if it is discovered to be lacking a rivet. House owners who’ve already paid to get the problem fastened shall be eligible to assert a refund, although that is unlikely to have occurred contemplating the marketing campaign contains new and nearly-new vehicles which are nonetheless underneath guarantee.
Honda will start notifying homeowners of Accord and HR-V fashions included within the marketing campaign by mail beginning on January 8, 2024.