Acura Tl. Published by Transport Canada as 2008080 on 4 March 2008. System: Steering.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, prolonged high under-hood temperatures may cause a power steering hose to deteriorate prematurely, causing the hose to crack and leak. Power steering fluid leakage onto a hot catalytic converter will generate smoke and possibly lead to an under-hood fire, which could result in property damage, …
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Acura TL in the other registers
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The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2008080
- Recall date
- 4 March 2008
- Make
- Acura
- Models
- TL
- Model years
- 2004 to 2008
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 19,067
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, prolonged high under-hood temperatures may cause a power steering hose to deteriorate prematurely, causing the hose to crack and leak. Power steering fluid leakage onto a hot catalytic converter will generate smoke and possibly lead to an under-hood fire, which could result in property damage, personal injury, or death. Correction: Dealers will replace the power steering hose with an updated version.
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 2008080.
Acura elsewhere in this register
Acura is named on 106 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2008079 · 4 March 2008 · TL · Other
- 2008414 · 18 November 2008 · Civic, Accord, El · Airbag
- 2007387 · 5 December 2007 · RL · Steering
- 2007282 · 4 September 2007 · Civic, CSX · Other
- 2007088 · 19 March 2007 · RL, Accord Hybrid, TSX · Fuel System
- 2006317 · 20 November 2006 · RDX · Other
- 2010008 · 18 January 2010 · MDX · Other
- 2010042 · 11 February 2010 · El, Civic, Accord · Airbag
The same system: Steering
582 notices in this register name Steering. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2008103 · 26 March 2008 · Allegro Bus · Steering
- 2008041 · 6 February 2008 · Encore · Steering
- 2008036 · 5 February 2008 · Empress · Steering
- 2008136 · 24 April 2008 · Expedition, Excursion, Discovery · Steering
- 2008135 · 25 April 2008 · Cross Country, Pathfinder, Encore · Steering
- 2008138 · 28 April 2008 · Cross Country, Elite, Cross Country Se · Steering
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on an Acura: 106 in the register, and 458 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2008.
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