Honda Civic. Published by Transport Canada as 2007295 on 10 September 2007. System: Lights And Instruments.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, excessive amounts of silicon grease was applied to the telescoping mechanism of the steering column during vehicle assembly. As a result, oil can separate from the grease, which can form droplets that may fall onto the brake light switch. This can cause the brake light to fail, it may not be …
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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.
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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
- 2007295
- Recall date
- 10 September 2007
- Make
- Honda
- Models
- Civic
- Model years
- 2006 to 2007
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Lights And Instruments
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 3,596
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, excessive amounts of silicon grease was applied to the telescoping mechanism of the steering column during vehicle assembly. As a result, oil can separate from the grease, which can form droplets that may fall onto the brake light switch. This can cause the brake light to fail, it may not be possible to shift the transmission from the Park position and/or the stop lamps may fail to illuminate, leading to a failure to alert a following vehicle of the driver's intent to stop, potentially resulting in a crash. Correction: Dealers will replace the brake light switch and connector housing, and install a cover to prevent oil from damaging the switch.
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 2007295.
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.
- 2007282 · 4 September 2007 · Civic, CSX · Other
- 2007268 · 20 August 2007 · VFR800/A · Electrical
- 2007254 · 25 July 2007 · Civic · Label
- 2007379 · 28 November 2007 · Ridgeline · Other
- 2007388 · 5 December 2007 · Fit · Other
- 2007401 · 12 December 2007 · Cbr1000rr (fireblade) · Fuel System
- 2007181 · 6 June 2007 · Xr70r, Cr80r, Trx450fm - Foreman 450 · Label
- 2007089 · 20 March 2007 · Cmx250c - Rebel · Engine
The same system: Lights And Instruments
900 notices in this register name Lights And Instruments. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2007306 · 18 September 2007 · Jetta, GTI, Rabbit · Lights And Instruments
- 2007315 · 28 September 2007 · Optra · Lights And Instruments
- 2007325 · 10 October 2007 · Cxu, Chu, Gu · Lights And Instruments
- 2007347 · 26 October 2007 · Surf Side, Dolphin, Dolphin LX · Lights And Instruments
- 2007351 · 1 November 2007 · Sprinter · Lights And Instruments
- 2007356 · 6 November 2007 · Ellipse, Suncruiser · Lights And Instruments
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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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