Honda Accord. Published by Transport Canada as 2007013 on 18 January 2007. System: Airbag.
What the notice says The seat position sensor (SPS) detects the driver's seating position and adjusts the airbag inflation pressure accordingly in the event of a crash. This is primarily to lessen the inflation pressure for smaller statured drivers who usually sit closer to the steering wheel. In the affected vehicles, the SPS harness …
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Honda ACCORD in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Honda ACCORD is named on 28 American notices, 13 British, 12 European, 3 Japanese and 28 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European register
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/00544/20: Honda Accord, Civic, Cr-V, Integra, Logo, Shuttle, notified by Portugal
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/0355/15: Honda Accord, Accord Tourer, Civic, Cr-V, Jazz & Stream, notified by United Kingdom
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/0724/15: Honda Accord, Accord Tourer, Civic, Cr-V, Jazz And Stream, notified by United Kingdom
The Japanese 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
- 2007013
- Recall date
- 18 January 2007
- Make
- Honda
- Models
- Accord
- Model years
- 2004 to 2005
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Airbag
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 9,043
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
The seat position sensor (SPS) detects the driver's seating position and adjusts the airbag inflation pressure accordingly in the event of a crash. This is primarily to lessen the inflation pressure for smaller statured drivers who usually sit closer to the steering wheel. In the affected vehicles, the SPS harness was incorrectly attached to the 8-way power seat frame. Over time, the sensor harness could break which would cause the airbag warning light to be illuminated, and the SPS to fail. A failure of the SPS causes the airbag deployment to default to full inflation pressure, regardless of the seat position. Full deployment of the driver's airbag could increase the risk of injury for smaller statured drivers in a frontal crash. Correction: Dealers will replace the seat position sensor wiring harness.
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 2007013.
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.
- 2007004 · 3 January 2007 · Trx450er - Sportrax 450 · Suspension
- 2007024 · 2 February 2007 · Civic Hybrid · Electrical
- 2007088 · 19 March 2007 · RL, Accord Hybrid, TSX · Fuel System
- 2007089 · 20 March 2007 · Cmx250c - Rebel · Engine
- 2007181 · 6 June 2007 · Xr70r, Cr80r, Trx450fm - Foreman 450 · Label
- 2007254 · 25 July 2007 · Civic · Label
- 2007268 · 20 August 2007 · VFR800/A · Electrical
- 2007282 · 4 September 2007 · Civic, CSX · Other
The same system: Airbag
734 notices in this register name Airbag. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2007033 · 8 February 2007 · Impreza, Forester · Airbag
- 2007044 · 22 February 2007 · Outlook, Acadia · Airbag
- 2007069 · 9 March 2007 · Versa · Airbag
- 2007070 · 9 March 2007 · Allure · Airbag
- 2007103 · 29 March 2007 · G6 · Airbag
- 2007129 · 25 April 2007 · 6 Series · Airbag
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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 420 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2007.
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