Honda Civic. Published by Transport Canada as 1978081 on 29 August 1978. System: Visual System.
What the notice says On certain Civic wagon, the windshield defroster hoses may become dislodged if contacted forcefully by the driver's foot. This condition would cause a partial loss of the defrosting function and may impair the operator's view.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Honda CIVIC in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Honda CIVIC is named on 22 American notices, 42 British, 31 European and 33 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1978081
- Recall date
- 29 August 1978
- Make
- Honda
- Models
- Civic
- Model years
- 1978
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Visual System
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 43,752
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain Civic wagon, the windshield defroster hoses may become dislodged if contacted forcefully by the driver's foot. This condition would cause a partial loss of the defrosting function and may impair the operator's view.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1978081.
Honda elsewhere in this register
Honda is named on 362 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1978121 · 1 November 1978 · XL125 · Not Entered
- 1978130 · 21 November 1978 · CX500 · Not Entered
- 1978135 · 23 November 1978 · XL125 · Not Entered
- 1978146 · 19 December 1978 · CX500 · Not Entered
- 1977159 · 13 February 1978 · CB750, Gl1000 · Brakes
- 1979039 · 2 March 1979 · CB750 · Engine
- 1979064 · 5 April 1979 · CB750 · Engine
- 1977124 · 29 December 1977 · SL350, CL450, CB750 · Fuel System
The same system: Visual System
424 notices in this register name Visual System. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1977174 · 27 February 1978 · Micmac Iv, Micmac Ii, Micmac I · Visual System
- 1977156 · 9 February 1978 · 4800, C, DC · Visual System
- 1979157 · 20 September 1979 · Road Boss RB2, Road Boss RBW, C · Visual System
- 1980094 · 25 June 1980 · GLF, GL, DL · Visual System
- 1986038 · 10 April 1986 · F-350 · Visual System
- 1987130 · 30 November 1987 · Wagoneer, Cherokee, Grand Wagoneer · Visual System
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Honda Civic, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Honda: 362 in the register, and 150 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1978.
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