2003 Honda Civic

The 2003 Honda Civic has 6 recalls, all involving the frontal airbags, with the most serious being a defect in both the driver and passenger airbag inflators that can cause them to explode and send sharp metal fragments into the cabin, with the potential to kill or seriously injure occupants.

All six recalls center on the same airbag system. The core danger across the majority of these recalls is that the frontal airbag inflators, on both the driver and passenger sides, can rupture violently during deployment rather than inflating the bag in a controlled way. Instead of cushioning an occupant in a crash, the inflator can fragment and scatter sharp metal pieces throughout the cabin, putting the driver, front passenger, and even rear seat occupants at risk of severe lacerations or fatal injury. Prior repair attempts did not fully resolve the issue, which is why multiple rounds of recalls cover the same underlying inflator defect across both seating positions. The remaining recall addresses a separate but related concern: on some vehicles, a replacement passenger airbag may have been installed incorrectly, meaning that in a crash the bag could deploy in an unintended direction or with an improper force, reducing its ability to protect the passenger and potentially causing injury on its own.