Honda and Acura Recalls Nearly 1.7 Million of Its Most Popular Cars and Crossover SUVs
If you’re a 2023 to 2025 model year Honda owner, you will want to see if your car is on the list.
It hasn’t been quite a year, but Honda has another new and huge recall that involves most of its popular cars and SUVs, including the HR-V that was recently recalled over a seatbelt issue. Now, a new issue has popped up related to the steering box that has affected nearly 1.7 million vehicles up to the 2025 model year for both Honda and Acura.
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It’s never a great time when you find out that your brand-new car, truck, or SUV is already in need of a repair. That’s the news that many Honda and Acura owners were greeted with this recall notice.
The issue stems from a steering worm gear that was not only produced to an incorrect spec but also installed incorrectly due to an incorrect worm gear spring. This combination caused the grease to thin out and increase the steering effort required to steer many Honda vehicles and includes the 2024 to 2025 Acura Integra Type S and Honda Civic Type R. It also includes the 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid, which we still think is a great vehicle despite this recall.
There is a remedy and Honda and Acura dealers will install a new worm gear spring that will reduce the excess load and redistribute the existing grease or repack the steering gear box with new grease.
Having experience in many forms of the automotive industry, Justin Banner has done more than just write about cars. For more than 15 years, he's had experience working as an automotive service technician—including a stint as a Virginia State Inspector—service advisor, parts sales, and aftermarket parts technical advisor (a fancy way of saying he helped you on the phone when you had trouble fitting your brakes over your aftermarket wheels and the like). Prior to his tenure as a full-time editor, Justin worked as a freelance writer and photographer for various publications and as an automotive content creator on YouTube. He’s also covered multiple forms of motorsports ranging from Formula Drift, drag racing, and time attack, to NASCAR, short course off-roading, and open desert racing. He's best known for breaking down complex technical concepts so a layperson can more easily understand why technologies, repairs, and parts should matter to them. At MotorTrend, Justin is part of the news team covering breaking news and topics while also working as a judge for MotorTrend Of the Year events and other major comparison tests.
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