The 2008 Honda Fit has 9 recalls, the most serious being a passenger-side airbag inflator that can rupture and send metal fragments into the cabin, posing a risk of serious injury or death.
The airbag recalls cover several related issues. The core inflator rupture risk has been the subject of multiple filings, and prior repair attempts may not have fully resolved the issue for all vehicles. A separate airbag concern applies to vehicles where a replacement passenger airbag may have been installed incorrectly, causing it to deploy improperly in a crash. There is also a geographic-specific recall affecting vehicles registered in certain states where the front passenger airbag system raises the risk of injury to small or out-of-position occupants.
On the drivetrain side, the driveshaft can break and cause a sudden loss of drive power, and if the parking brake was not set before the driver got out, the vehicle could roll away. Two recalls address the driver's master power window switch, where water can get into the switch housing and cause it to overheat, producing smoke, melting, or fire; an earlier repair attempt did not fully resolve this for all affected vehicles. The lowest-severity recall involves the low-beam headlight wiring, which can pull tight enough to cause the low beams to stop working, reducing visibility at night.
