Honda recalls 900,000 vehicles worldwide because of problems with airbags

The Japanese automaker Honda announced Friday, November 2 he recalled over 900,000 vehicles worldwide, mostly in the United States, for problems with airbags. In the worst case, the bottle containing the gas used to inflate the cushion could explode in an accident and scattered pieces of the container in the passenger compartment, said the group. The successful models Accord and Civic, popular in North America, are among the vehicles involved.

Honda said that 304,035 units of ten models manufactured in 2001 and 2002 were recalled worldwide, of which 272 779 only for U.S. and Canada. He added that this initiative complemented a previous recall of 950,000 units for similar reasons on models manufactured between 2008 and 2010.
There is also a second problem of airbags on vehicles with air bag was sold by Honda and installed by the garage. Dealerships or garages as well have placed 640 of these airbags poses a threat, but the manufacturer, not knowing where they are, will ask to inspect 603,421 potentially affected vehicles in the United States. "This represents 876,000 vehicles there in the United States", plus about 31 000 in other countries, and "there will probably other points around the world," he told AFP is a speaker from Honda.