The defect
American Honda Motor Company, Inc.'s (Honda) is conducting a limited regional recall for certain model year 2003-2005 Accord, Civic, CR-V, Pilot and Acura MDX, model year 2003-2004 Odyssey and Element, and model year 2005 Acura RL, and 2006 Honda Ridgeline vehicles originally sold, or ever registered in California, and equipped with Takata-brand air bag inflators. Upon deployment of the passenger side frontal air bag, excessive internal pressure may cause the inflator to rupture.
The risk
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passengers frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants potentially resulting in serious injury or death.
The remedy
Honda will notify owners, and dealers will replace the inflators in all affected vehicles, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin during August 2014. Owners may contact Honda customer service at 1-800-999-1009.
NHTSA's own wording · initiated by MFR
Vehicles covered
Components: AIR BAGS
Model years in this recall
NHTSA complaints and the number of recall campaigns for each model year this recall covers.
| Model | Year | Complaints | Recalls |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acura MDX | 2003 | 206 | 11 |
| Acura MDX | 2004 | 171 | 8 |
| Acura MDX | 2005 | 180 | 11 |
| Acura RL | 2005 | 125 | 11 |
| Honda Accord | 2003 | 1,987 | 13 |
| Honda Accord | 2004 | 1,018 | 13 |
| Honda Accord | 2005 | 656 | 15 |
| Honda CR-V | 2003 | 468 | 13 |
| Honda CR-V | 2004 | 501 | 12 |
| Honda CR-V | 2005 | 479 | 12 |
| Honda Civic | 2003 | 499 | 11 |
| Honda Civic | 2004 | 350 | 10 |
| Honda Civic | 2005 | 316 | 10 |
| Honda Element | 2003 | 423 | 10 |
| Honda Element | 2004 | 281 | 9 |
| Honda Odyssey | 2003 | 914 | 15 |
| Honda Odyssey | 2004 | 585 | 13 |
| Honda Pilot | 2003 | 720 | 13 |
| Honda Pilot | 2004 | 544 | 12 |
| Honda Pilot | 2005 | 679 | 13 |
| Honda Ridgeline | 2006 | 242 | 12 |
Other air bags recalls in 2014
38 of the 770 recall campaigns reported to NHTSA in 2014 concerned the air bags; Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) filed 245 campaigns in all.
| 14V788000 15 Dec 2014 | Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) |
| 14V787000 12 Dec 2014 | Ford Motor Company |
| 14V770000 3 Dec 2014 | Chrysler Group LLC |
| 14V763000 1 Dec 2014 | Subaru of America, Inc. |
| 14V757000 26 Nov 2014 | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing |
| 14V700000 4 Nov 2014 | Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) |
| 14V668000 24 Oct 2014 | Nissan North America, Inc. |
| 14V667000 24 Oct 2014 | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
NHTSA recalls (public domain) · all recalls of 2014