Honda likely to recall units of City, Jazz, Civic cars in India

Honda the Japanese carmaker today announced its plans to recall 57,676 units of its three models, which includes City, Jazz and Civic in India manufactured between January 2012 and June 2013 to replace faulty airbags as part of its global exercise.

Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL) said it will voluntarily replace driver side airbag inflators of those recalled vehicles of previous generation of City, Jazz and Civic as part of the firm's preventive global recall campaign concerning air bag inflators.

The recall will affect 49,572 units of City sedan and 7,504 units of premium hatchback Jazz produced during February 2012 to February 2013, HCIL said in a statement.

"The replacement would be carried out free of cost at HCIL dealerships across India in a phased manner, starting from February 20, 2016, and the company will communicate with customers directly," stated the report.

In September, HCIL had announced to recall around 2.24 lakh units of its premium sports utility vehicles, the CR-V, sedans Civic, City and hatchback Jazz.

Later in December, the company announced recall 90,210 units of its sedan City and multi-purpose vehicle Mobilio in India manufactured between December 2013 and July 2015 to replace faulty fuel return pipe.