Honda Civic, Accord, Prelude. Published by Transport Canada as 1980170 on 15 December 1980. System: Suspension.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, corrosive elements in the environment may cause deterioration of the front and rear lower suspension arms. This corrosion may result in loss of vehicle control.
Vehicle located in Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland.
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
- 1980170
- Recall date
- 15 December 1980
- Make
- Honda
- Models
- Civic, Accord, Prelude
- Model years
- 1973 to 1979
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Suspension
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 193,830
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, corrosive elements in the environment may cause deterioration of the front and rear lower suspension arms. This corrosion may result in loss of vehicle control.
Vehicle located in Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland.
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 1980170.
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.
- 1980080 · 9 May 1980 · Cr125r · Other
- 1980065 · 29 April 1980 · Civic · Other
- 1979211 · 27 December 1979 · CB750 · Electrical
- 1979082 · 9 May 1979 · CB750 · Engine
- 1979080 · 4 May 1979 · CB750 · Engine
- 1979064 · 5 April 1979 · CB750 · Engine
- 1979039 · 2 March 1979 · CB750 · Engine
- 1978146 · 19 December 1978 · CX500 · Not Entered
The same system: Suspension
746 notices in this register name Suspension. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1981015 · 29 January 1981 · Invader, Intruder · Suspension
- 1981027 · 24 February 1981 · Vista Cruiser, Cutlass Supreme, Cutlass Salon · Suspension
- 1979202 · 4 December 1979 · L Series · Suspension
- 1979144 · 11 September 1979 · L Series, C Series, W Series · Suspension
- 1979129 · 25 July 1979 · Axle · Suspension
- 1979075 · 27 April 1979 · B200, B100, B300 · Suspension
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
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 Accord, 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 167 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1980.
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