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Honda recalls 57,853 City sedans
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 17
Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI) today announced the recall of over 55,000 units of its City model for what it said was a preventive part replacement.

In a statement issued here, HSCI, while not terming the calling back of the third generation City cars manufactured between November 2008 and December 2009 a “recall”, said it would carry out preventive part replacement of lost motion spring in the valve train for 57,853 units.

HSCI is proactively replacing the part in these vehicles with a new improved part.

Lost motion springs, which are compressed by rocker arms in normal engine use, may bend or break over time resulting in abnormal engine noise and potentially causing engine stalling and problems in restarting, the statement said.

The replacement would be carried out free of cost and the company will communicate directly with the owners of the cars which are covered under this part replacement. The dealerships have been updated about the part replacement and the new part is being dispatched to the dealerships in phases for smooth execution, to avoid any inconvenience to the customers.

The statement further said that a special microsite has been created on the website (www.hondacarindia.com) which enables the customers to check whether their car will be covered under this part replacement by submitting their 17 character alpha-numeric Vehicle Identification Number (VIN).

HSCI is carrying out the part replacement as part of a global exercise by Honda Motor Company to ensure stringent quality standards for its products, it said, while adding that the part replacement was only applicable to Honda City manufactured from November 2008 to December 2009 and the currently sold City is not affected and does not require any part replacement. The recall comes within months of Honda having recalled a large number of its Jazz model cars across the world.

HSCI, however, added that the global recall does not impact the Honda Jazz sold in India. The recall announced by Honda applies to certain units of Fit/ Jazz fitted with 1.5L i-VTEC engine which were sold in other countries and not sold in India.