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.
The replacement would be carried out free of cost at HCIL dealerships across India from 4th 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 micro-site which has been created on the company’s website (www.hondacarindia.com).
There has been no reporting of any incident related to this part in India.