Honda Motor has announced a voluntarily recall on approximately 2.26 million vehicles around the world (1.5 million of which reside in the United States) to update the software that controls the automatic transmission.
In this voluntary recall certain 2005-2010 4-cylinder Accord (2008 Honda Accord, pictured), 2007-2010 CR-V and 2005-2008 Element vehicles will be included. Without updating the software, the automatic transmission in these vehicles could be damaged if the driver quickly shifts between gears. That might cause the engine to stall or make it difficult to put the car into park. The update to the vehicle’s automatic transmission control module software will ease the transition between gears to reduce the possibility of damage. According to the manufacturer, no injuries or deaths have been reported related to this condition.
The Japanese car maker is announcing this recall to encourage all owners of affected vehicles to take their vehicles to an authorized dealer as soon as they receive notification of this recall from Honda.
Chris Martin, Honda spokesman at the company’s U.S. headquarters in California, said the recall was the result of “extremely unusual circumstances. The far majority of our consumers would never really encounter this. It’s software programming. It’s not a weakness in the transmission per se.”
This software update will take about a half-hour, but customers may have to leave their cars at Honda dealerships for a longer period, Martin said.
To this end, in addition to contacting customers by mail, after August 31, owners of these vehicles will be able to determine if their vehicles require repair by going on-line to www.recalls.honda.com or by calling (800) 999-1009, and selecting option 4.
Notification to customers will begin on August 31, 2011.
Source: Honda via Autoblog
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Less than two weeks ago I had an accident with my CRV. I had parked it on slight incline, put the car in park, got out of the car and tried to lock it, stood talking to my customer for at least a minute or so tried to figure out why it wouldn’t lock, went to get in the car, but just as I did it rolled down incline into my customers car. I would like to know if this could have been caused by the problem as stated in the recall.