Honda has issued a recall for nearly 100,000 cars, some of which are a decade old. The affected vehicles may have a faulty front passenger seat weight sensor that, in the event of a crash, could deploy the airbags when they should not.
According to the recall report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a capacitor on the sensor circuit board could crack, exposing it to “environmental humidity” and possibly causing an internal short circuit. If this happens, the front passenger frontal and knee airbags may deploy in a crash “for whom deployment should be suppressed, increasing the risk of injury,” such as an infant in a car seat, a child, or a small adult.
