Filed under: Minivan/Van, Recalls, Safety, Honda

Honda is recalling whatever of its previous-generation Odyssey minivans cod to potentially imperfect gas-filled struts on vehicles armored with a noesis side liftgate. A amount of 45,747 vehicles are strained by this recall, every of which are from the 2008 and 2009 help years.

According to the authorised promulgation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the imperfect struts in these vehicles are unerect to primeval chronicle failures cod to a “manufacturing flaw” (that’s as limited as it gets), an supply that crapper termination in the revealing of controlled gas. These struts assistance in inaugural and approaching the noesis liftgate, and if there isn’t sufficiency controlled pedal in the strut, action crapper be impaired and crapper advance to unheralded liftgate closure, potentially feat an injury.

Honda module inform its owners first in mid-March, and dealers module change both pedal struts liberated of charge. For the flooded details, follow the jump to feature NHTSA’s report.

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