Honda India to replace airbag inflator on Accord and CR-V

Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) today announced that it would carry out preventive replacement of Passenger Side Air Bag inflator of 575 units of CR-V manufactured in Year 2004 and Driver side Air Bag Inflator of 10,805 units of Accord manufactured from Year 2003 – 2007 as part of Honda’s global recall/ safety improvement campaign concerning Air Bag inflators.  Additionally, the Passenger Side Air Bag Inflator of 1 unit of Civic of 2004 make will also be replaced.

There has been no reporting of any incident related to this part in India.

The replacement would be carried out free of cost at HCIL dealerships across India from 4^th June 2015 in a phased manner and the company will communicate with customers directly. The 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 which has been created on the company’s website.

(HondaCarIndia.com)

We had glad to see Honda take this safety initiative, even though no incidents have been reported yet. It isn’t very common to see manufacturers being concerned about the safety, however now the trend is changing. Honda will be launching the new Jazz this year and next year a new SUV could come in too. At the moment, Honda is increasing the manufacturing at the second facility in Rajasthan. The Honda City has been the highest selling premium sedan in its segment. We could some refreshes in the next 12-18 months.