Honda Recalls Pilot, Passport for Potential Fuel Leak

Honda has issued a recall for 205,760 2023-2025 Pilot and 2023-2024 Passport SUVs. The recall stems from a manufacturing challenge that forestalls the gas filler neck tube and pipe from correctly connecting. If an affected car will get right into a crash, the influence might trigger the 2 elements to separate, presumably making a gas leak.

Honda’s investigation found that an out-of-sequence course of throughout car meeting prevented the 2 items from making a whole connection. The automaker improved its meeting course of on October 18.

Honda discovered of a possible downside on Could 13, 2024, when it acquired its first guarantee declare associated to the problem. A supplier notified the automaker concerning the doable downside because it carried out a pre-delivery inspection. By Could 20, Honda had discovered six autos with incomplete gas pipe connections in its stock.

Over the subsequent few months, Honda continued to research the problem earlier than deciding on November 21 to challenge a security recall. It doesn’t know of any experiences of accidents or deaths associated to this challenge.

Honda will contact affected homeowners by way of mail, instructing them to take their car to a licensed supplier, the place a service technician will examine the connection and correctly join the 2 elements if there’s a difficulty. The automaker will start notifying prospects early subsequent 12 months.