2005 Honda Civic

The 2005 Honda Civic has 6 recalls, all involving the frontal airbags, with the most serious being a defect where both the driver and passenger airbag inflators can explode and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.

All six recalls center on the same critical danger zone: the frontal airbag inflators on both sides of the vehicle. The driver-side and passenger-side inflators can rupture violently during deployment, scattering sharp metal shards toward the driver, front passenger, or anyone seated nearby. This is not a case of an airbag failing to deploy but rather one where the airbag fires and the inflator itself becomes a source of injury. Prior repair attempts did not fully resolve the issue across all affected vehicles, which is why multiple rounds of recalls exist for the same underlying problem. The sixth recall adds a related but distinct concern: on some vehicles where the front passenger airbag was already replaced, the replacement unit may have been installed incorrectly. An improperly seated airbag can deploy in an unpredictable direction during a crash rather than cushioning the occupant as intended, which raises the risk of injury even when the inflator itself is not ruptured.