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February 22, 2016 01:00 AM

Honda preps to recall Civics over possible engine failure

By Craig Trudell and Yuki Hagiwara, Bloomberg News
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    A dealer service bulletin posted on the enthusiast site CivicX.com said about 34,000 Honda Civics were involved and the fault was with missing or mis-set piston rings that could cause engines to stall or fail.

    TOYOTA (Feb. 22, 2016) — Honda Motor Co. is preparing a recall for the 2016 Civic compact in the U.S. and has ordered dealers to stop selling some versions of the car, months after beginning sales of the crucial new model.

    The auto maker issued a stop-sale notice to car dealers in late January, spokesman Chris Martin said in an email, declining to give specific details including the number of vehicles before the official recall statement. Blogs including Jalopnik and Autoblog earlier this month cited a dealer service bulletin posted on the enthusiast site CivicX.com that said about 34,000 Civics were involved and the fault was with missing or mis-set piston rings that could cause engines to stall or fail.

    The impending recall is another setback to Honda one year after quality issues led Japan's third-largest auto maker to change presidents, naming Takahiro Hachigo to replace Takanobu Ito. Mr. Hachigo has vowed to improve internal communication and downplayed sales targets after recalls related to Takata Corp. airbags and redesigned Fit small cars and Vezel compact SUVs plagued his predecessor.

    One of Honda's core models, the Civic joined the CR-V SUV and Accord midsize sedan as the company's three nameplates to top 1 million units sold in the U.S. for the third straight year. The 2016 model was named North American Car of the Year in January by a committee of automotive journalists.

    Honda's stop-sale is in effect on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis until each affected car is inspected and repaired, if a fix is needed, Mr. Martin said. The company will issue a recall statement once the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) acknowledges its recall plan, he said.

    Replacement parts for the recall were not available as of when the company issued its service bulletin dated Jan. 30, the posting on CivicX.com shows. Honda said it expected to notify customers in mid-March when tools, parts and details are projected to be available, according to the bulletin.

    Honda last month missed analysts' estimates for net income, operating profit and revenue, and cut its fiscal year sales forecast by 50 billion yen ($443 million), as costly recalls to replace faulty Takata Corp. airbag inflators expanded. The car maker is Takata's biggest customer and has called back vehicles to replace more than 20 million inflators that can deploy with too much force and rupture, spraying plastic and metal shards at vehicle occupants.

     

    This Bloomberg News report appeared on the website of Automotive News, a Detroit-based sister publication of Tire Business.

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