2001 HONDA ACCORD Recalls — Canada & USA

The 2001 Honda Accord has 4 recalls, all involving the front airbags, with the most serious being a Takata inflator defect where both the driver and passenger airbag inflators can rupture during deployment and send metal fragments into the cabin. The driver-side inflator defect applies to vehicles originally sold or registered in high-humidity regions, where moisture accelerates the degradation that causes the inflator to over-pressurize. The passenger-side version of this rupture risk is the same underlying failure: excessive internal pressure causes the inflator to burst, with metal fragments passing through the airbag cushion. There is also a separate passenger airbag concern where the front passenger airbag may have been installed incorrectly during a prior replacement, which can cause it to deploy improperly in a crash and raise the risk of injury.