Honda recalls 750,000 vehicles for airbag defects

Paul A. Eisenstein, the Detroit Bureau

After having the second-highest number of callbacks for all manufacturers in the US market, Honda that it almost three-quarters of the 1 million vehicles will remember exit to a difficult start for 2013, this time announcing, because missing rivets not correctly provide their driving side airbags in the event of a crash could fall.

The latest safety issue is 748.000 of the manufacturer's popular pilot crossover Odyssey minivan models. A further 29,000 vehicles in Canada distributed are also discussed.

The latest recall covers Honda Pilot models during the 2009 to 2013 model years and Odyssey minivans from 2011 to 2013?? customers will be prompted the vehicles to their dealers for the inspection of the airbag driver side and, if necessary, for Reparaturen.Es is the latest in a series of problems that had Honda airbags now resulted in the recall of several million vehicles in the last few years. Include a problem in over-aggressively, airbags could inflate shrapnel into the passenger cabin fire caused.

According to Honda "driver-side airbags in these vehicles may be without some of the rivets, the plastic cover of the airbags protect the assembled. If the studs are not present, which can provide airbag not properly, increase the risk of injury in a crash. No crashes or injuries reported in connection with this issue."

The manufacturer says that no crashes or injuries have been reported due to the problem.

Will owners of mid-February, notify the company by dialing owner while 800-999-1009 and select option 4 or www.recalls.honda.com to contact.

Honda has problems that the manufacturer with more vehicles recalled led repairs than any other manufacturer for security in 2011 compared to an ongoing series of topics, including airbag and vehicle fire. Last year, it came in the second, with 3.9 million vehicles safety campaigns, behind only Toyota, which even involved recalled 5.3 million cars, trucks and crossovers.

The automotive industry suffered a total an increase of recalls last year with a total of 16.2 million vehicles, 4.5% after a preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Toyota and Honda, stamps have usually identified with high quality and reliability, in the callback list for the past four years led.

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Report defects probed by Nissan, Chrysler, GM

DETROIT - U.S. safety regulators have opened preliminary investigations into complaints about vehicles that could influence of Nissan Motor Co Ltd, Chrysler LLC and General Motors co, the more than 700,000 cars.

A preliminary study is the first step in a process that can cause the callback, if regulators determine that a security aspect of a manufacturer needs to be addressed.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that the probe in an estimated 440,000 Nissan Altima in 2007 and 2008 concerns a possible leak in the master cylinder cars from model years, which could reduce the effectiveness of the brakes.

NHTSA said that it had received 20 complaints from Altima drivers. Of these supposedly two reducing brake effectiveness while 18 only lighting of the stop lamp warning reported.

The Agency said that it in 2007 and 2008 potentially affect 222,500 vehicles Wrangler from model years also Chrysler's Jeep, of airbag light lighting, indicating an airbag Clockspring error was investigated.

A Clockspring is a coil under the steering wheel, the an electrical connection to the managed the air bag on the driver's side. A broken circuit can mean that the air bag is not inflated.

NHTSA said it 29 complaints of jeep drivers had received. Of these cabling Assembly identified as the cause of the problem, while only the airbag light said the other six was been illuminated 23 Clockspring.

14 Holder contacted six belonged said the right hand drive versions by postal carriers used.

A third probe covers that GM 2007 aura, 65,105 cars, via a gear shift cable that could fail causing Saturn not to fully to engage the park equipment, potentially affect.

The Agency said it eight complaints claimed that the transmission shift cable which the vehicle roll away, move, or speed up with the shifter in the park or in the opposite direction as the driver determined to speed up failed to.

NHTSA no crashes or injuries in the context of the reported problems open.

Spokesman for the three companies said that the car manufacturers were fully cooperates with the investigation.

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