Honda, Mazda to recall 861,000 vehicles worldwide
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Honda, Mazda to recall 861,000 vehicles worldwide
TOKYO - Japanese automakers Honda and Mazda said on Thursday they will recall for free repairs a total of 861,000 cars they have sold at home and abroad.
Honda Motor Co Ltd notified the transport ministry it will recall 847,000 units of six models -- the Civic, Ferio, Hybrid, Fit, Stepwagon and Stream -- which were built between August 2000 and December 2001, a company spokesman said.
Honda will fix a fault in the switch controlling the front headlights at a total cost of 5.77 billion yen (S$90 million), she said.
The global total includes 190,424 units sold in Japan, which will cost 1.23 billion yen to recall and fix, she added.
Separately Mazda Motor Corp said it will recall 6,559 RX-8 cars sold in Japan because of two defects.
The company had identified a problem with the car's manual transmission system that can make a heat shield plate crack or come loose, and a defective shock absorber in the front wheels that can make components come loose while driving, a Mazda spokesman said.
The recall will also affect roughly another 7,500 of the exported cars, bringing the worldwide total to about 14,000 units, he said.
The recall covers vehicles made between February and August last year and this March. The spokesman could not say how much the recall would cost.
Meanwhile Honda America will recall 240 Civic GX cars made in the United States between March 2001 and October 2002 to fix a problem with the power steering that might stop the steering wheel turning, according to documents submitted to the ministry.
Honda Motor Co Ltd notified the transport ministry it will recall 847,000 units of six models -- the Civic, Ferio, Hybrid, Fit, Stepwagon and Stream -- which were built between August 2000 and December 2001, a company spokesman said.
Honda will fix a fault in the switch controlling the front headlights at a total cost of 5.77 billion yen (S$90 million), she said.
The global total includes 190,424 units sold in Japan, which will cost 1.23 billion yen to recall and fix, she added.
Separately Mazda Motor Corp said it will recall 6,559 RX-8 cars sold in Japan because of two defects.
The company had identified a problem with the car's manual transmission system that can make a heat shield plate crack or come loose, and a defective shock absorber in the front wheels that can make components come loose while driving, a Mazda spokesman said.
The recall will also affect roughly another 7,500 of the exported cars, bringing the worldwide total to about 14,000 units, he said.
The recall covers vehicles made between February and August last year and this March. The spokesman could not say how much the recall would cost.
Meanwhile Honda America will recall 240 Civic GX cars made in the United States between March 2001 and October 2002 to fix a problem with the power steering that might stop the steering wheel turning, according to documents submitted to the ministry.
Prodigal Wankler
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See this thread in the Far East/Asia forum.
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From one of the most recent items on the Far East thread, it appears that suspension part recall extends only to cars manufactured through March 19, 2003. Mine was ordered Jan. 10 and mfd. March 24. (Hey, birthday celebration coming up!) This may be why there was no notice for U.S. cars -- they might have changed the part before they started cranking ours out.
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