A fuel pump relay fault first noted in a China recall last week has now spread to the US and Canada with Honda announcing it would recall about 166,000 vehicles in the US and 11,600 in Canada, including the Accord, Odyssey and five other models.
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A Honda spokesman told Reuters that the defect in the pump, manufactured by Japan’s Mitsuba, could cause the engine to stop and fail to restart. No accidents have been reported stemming from the defect.
The same defect affected about 30,000 of the 528,400 vehicles Honda said it would recall in China last week, the spokesman told the news agency. A recall filing for vehicles using the same component would also shortly be made in Japan, he told Reuters, adding that the cost of the recall was still unknown.
Affected models are 2005 model year Accord, Accord hybrid, Odyssey, Acura TL, Acura RL, and Acura TSX vehicles and some 2006 Ridgeline pickup trucks.
Separately, Asia Pulse said Honda South Korea was recalling 4,261 Accord sedans for free repair due to oil leaks in the steering system and a power cut in the fuel pump that could force the engine to stop.
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By GlobalDataSubject to the recall are all Accord CM5s and CM6s imported between 10 November, 2003 and 15 January, 2007.
A Honda UK spokesman last week told just-auto that a number of vehicles covered by the fuel pump relay recall are in the European Union – a total of 13,493 2005 model year Accord, FR-V and Jazz models, none of which came to the UK.
