Recall · 23V174000
Honda recalled 4 models over visibility
339,404
Vehicles covered
4
Models
10
Model years
March 16, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
VISIBILITY:REARVIEW MIRRORS/DEVICES:EXTERIOR
- The defect
- Honda (American Honda Motor Co) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Pilot and Ridgeline, and 2020-2022 Passport and Odyssey vehicles. The heating pads behind both side-view mirrors may not be bonded properly, allowing the mirror glass to detach. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."
- What it can cause
- Detached mirror glass can reduce driver visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace both left and right side-view mirrors, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed January 17, 2024. Owners may contact Honda customer service at 1-888-234-2138. Honda's number for this recall is FE5.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 339,404 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 97% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Honda vehicles have been recalled over the visibility 7 times before this, most recently in December 2020 as 20V768000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 10 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,182 complaints with NHTSA, 538 of them before this campaign was filed. 31 of those name the visibility, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2019, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 24 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V423000 (back over prevention), 26V365000 (structure), 26V332000 (air bags), 26V227000 (air bags).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) with NHTSA on March 16, 2023 as campaign 23V174000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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