Honda Recall 2010: Thousands Of Cars Recalled For Window Defect

A Honda recall has been announced today, Jan. 29, 2010, just days after a massive 2010 Toyota recall affected 2.3 million vehicles.

The 2010 Hoyota recall affects some 646,000 cars and was announced due to an apparent window issue.

The concern is that window switches can overheat if exposed to liquid, causing smoke, melting or even a fire, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Honda recall, like the Toyota one, comes at a "bad time for the industry as it struggles to lure buyers back to showrooms after a sales slump," per The Globe And Mail.

Jazz models, known as Fit in some countries, are affected by the Honda recall, which spans the globe but does not include Japan itself.

Some in Japan worry that both recalls could have an affect on Japan's image as an automobile producer and its economy.

Comments

[ttd7681]

11:00 PM on 02/09/2010

I think some you people need to take your blinders off and accept the fact that unfortunately not every foreign car is "perfect" as the media brainwashes us to believe, Toyota and Honda screwed up just as many other auto companies have in the past, accept it and move on. If you prefer to send your paycheck overseas to economies that are in ten times better shape than ours just to save a few bucks on repair bills be my guest, just don't sit and complain about your own country's economy after you write that check. I would rather support so called "government motors" and the country that raised me rather than 80% of every dollar flying to Asia and a small percentage staying here to support the American based factories these foreign manufacturers boast about.

[ttd7681]

11:00 PM on 02/09/2010

I love these discussion boards, half of the member sit back and complain about "union build standards" and foreign supremacy when it comes to vehicle production and they have absolutely no idea what their talking about. I suppose that because Toyota and Honda engineers and designers developed faulty systems which are now failing it is at the fault of the union members who were paid to install them. Can't be the management staff at Toyota and Honda that ordered these parts be implemented into their vehicles in the first place, Consumer Reports wouldn't support ignorance of that nature with a Best Buy..... I guess those brake problems on Toyota Prius models manufactured in Japan our the fault of the unions as well, apparently were flying the UAW over there to work in their factories to produce garbage. Union labor has come under scrutiny in the past but without them non union industries today never would have rushed to implement benefits and wage structures for their employees to compete with the union jobs. You can bad mouth unions all you want, just makes you look as if you have a complete lack of knowledge to the true history of this country's workforce. As for the "government agenda" ideas, I highly doubt that China/Japan, a region of the world that we are in billions of debt to are going to sit back and let us sabotage one of their largest manufacturing businesses without putting up a fight.

[DebtNavigation]

09:19 AM on 01/30/2010

Does anyone find it interesting that just when the U.S. government owns a major stake in two large domestic carmakers subtle but damning flaws are found in competing foreign-owned makes? Goebbels would be proud...

[mrpurple805]

03:59 PM on 01/30/2010

I wouldn't call the Toyota accelerator problem "subtle". As for this Honda issue, I wonder how many power window switches from any manufacturer would do well when exposed to liquid.

electrical device + liquid = you have a problem

[KataVideo]

07:21 PM on 02/04/2010

Also at a time when the new government in Tokyo is opposing and trying to back-out of an old agreement to build a new base for U.S. Forces in Okinawa?

[JBS]

01:19 AM on 01/30/2010

Don't look like any Saturn vehicles are going to be recalled.

[mrpurple805]

03:56 PM on 01/30/2010

Or sold, for that matter. ;^)

[Ken Maddox]

11:27 PM on 01/29/2010

The parts were made in non union shops, but they were installed in union and non union shops. You just have to conclude from this that the unions are behind the whole deal. At least that is how some will read it.
I wouldn't pay my hard earned money to buy an automobile made with scab labor.

[spinns17]

11:19 AM on 01/29/2010

BOY THOSE UNION WORKERS CANT DO ANYTHING RIGHT.wait there not union.lol

[Ken Maddox]

11:29 PM on 01/29/2010

Previous comment applied to Toy Auto not Honda toys.

[mrpurple805]

04:01 PM on 01/30/2010

Yes, the unions have been doing a bang-up job... especially with the number of unionized auto plants closing and all. Well, I guess if the union bosses don't lose their jobs, it's all good, right?