Honda said the expanded recall includes 2016 models that hit the market this past autumn.
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The recall documents specify that the vehicles contain airbags manufactured by Takata, which was fined a record $200 million past year by the NHTSA for hiding safety concerns over the exploding airbags linked to at least 10 deaths and scores of injuries.
The notice said the latest recall includes “certain model year 2007-2011 HondaCR-V, 2011-2015 CR-Z, 2010-2014 FCX Clarity, and Insight, 2009-2013 Fit, 2013-2014 Fit EV, 2007-2014 Ridgeline, 2013-2016 Acura ILX, 2013-2014 Acura ILX Hybrid, 2007-2016 RDX, 2005-2012 Acura RL, 2009-2014 Acura TL, and 2010-2013 Acura ZDX vehicles”.
In the interim, if a vehicle included in this recall displays the SRS indicator warning, vehicle owners are advised to visit an authorized Honda dealer for a diagnostic check as soon as possible.
The 2.2 million vehicles recalled in the U.S. Wednesday were part of the 5 million vehicles world-wide that Honda said last month that it would have to recall.
Just weeks after releasing the 2016 Civic, Honda had to implement a stop-sale order on the cars and issue a recall of 34,000 that had already been sold. Honda said it has received no reports of inflator ruptures from the affected Takata airbags in any of the company’s vehicles worldwide.
Honda Motor previously has recalled more than 6 million U.S. vehicles since 2008 to replace defective Takata inflators.
The fatal air bag deployment occurred in a 2006 Ford Ranger pickup, making it the first such death in a vehicle other than a Honda.
Honda said the PSDI-5 inflators will be replaced, beginning this summer, with parts from another supplier.
On Tuesday, Democratic US senators Richard Blumenthal and Edward Markey urged NHTSA to recall all cars with Takata inflators. The senators estimated that 24 million such vehicles remained on U.S. roads.
As a result, Honda said owners of affected vehicles will be alerted to the recall in an initial notification letter within 60 days. There is still ongoing work…
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Through December, NHTSA had recalled 23 million potentially defective Takata inflators in about 19 million vehicles.
