Sunday, January 31, 2010

Honda feels jealous and recalls Jazz/Fit & City

Honda recalled 646,000 units of its Jazz/Fit and City cars globally (sold in Europe, North America, South America, South Africa and Asia, but not Japan) over a faulty window switch. There were three reported cases of fires due to the defect, two in the United States and one in South Africa in which a toddler was killed on her second birthday in Cape Town in September last year when the car she was sleeping in caught fire.
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Honda UK said that water was entering the drivers' window of its Jazz model and reaching a master power switch, potentially causing the switch to over heat and "potentially cause fire.

Source: Reuters via Automotive News Europe

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