NHTSA Campaign 15V668000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INSTRUMENT CLUSTER/PANEL
NHTSA campaign 15V668000 covers 1 year-make-model version listed here and concerns the electrical system: instrument cluster/panel. The repair is free.
Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) filed the report for 15V668000 with NHTSA on October 16, 2015; the manufacturer initiated the recall.
For 15V668000, NHTSA lists up to 35,406 potentially affected vehicles, built between May 4, 2015 and September 8, 2015.
The 15V668000 report reached NHTSA 1 month after the last affected vehicle was built.
Owner notification letters for 15V668000 were scheduled from December 11, 2015, 56 days after the report.
15V668000 covers 1 model from Honda, model years 2016.
Owners of the model years 15V668000 covers have filed at least 581 complaints naming the electrical system, about this defect or others in the same group.
By potentially affected vehicles, 15V668000 ranks 98 of 232 Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) recalls on this site.
Besides 15V668000, Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) has 25 other recalls on the electrical system on this site; the one before 15V668000 was 15V559000, reported on September 3, 2015.
What this recall covers
- The defect
- Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain model year 2016 Honda Pilot 2WD vehicles manufactured May 4, 2015, to September 8, 2015 and 2016 Pilot 4WD vehicles manufactured May 7, 2015 to September 4, 2015. In the affected vehicles, when one of the safety systems such as tire pressure monitoring, anti-lock braking or electronic stability control malfunctions, there is potential that the instrument panel will not illuminate the corresponding warning light, however the warning lamps will illuminate when the ignition is turned off and then turned back on. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 126, "Electronic stability control systems", number 135, "Light vehicle brake systems" and number 138, "Tire pressure monitoring systems".
- The risk
- If a safety system cannot immediately warn the driver when needed, the driver may be at increased risk of a crash.
- The fix
- Honda will notify owners, and dealers will update the instrument cluster software, free of charge. The recall began on December 11, 2015. Owners may contact Honda customer service at 1-888-234-2138. Honda's number for this recall is JV7.
Reported October 16, 2015
Vehicles covered by 15V668000 (1)
Honda (1)
Being on this list means your year, make and model fall inside campaign 15V668000, not that your own vehicle does: a campaign covers a range of VINs. A VIN check on NHTSA's lookup shows whether it is.
Newest record on this page: October 16, 2015. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted