Honda Recalls Another 88,000 Vehicles With Rearview Camera Issues in Canada
Rear-view cameras have been mandatory on all new vehicles in Canada for several years now. They’re great for preventing a number of collisions—at least when they work properly. Reliability is a major concern, as evidenced by the growing list of recalls to fix rear-view camera issues.
Honda is giving us another example this week. The Japanese automaker is recalling approximately 1.2 million vehicles globally, including 88,228 in Canada.
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In some cases, the terminals on the coaxial cable for the centre display may not have been manufactured correctly. As a result, the display could lose its connection, and the rear-view camera image may not appear when the transmission is shifted into reverse.
Affected models include the 2018-2023 Odyssey, 2019-2022 Pilot and 2019-2023 Passport. The next-generation 2023 Pilot doesn’t have the same problem, it seems.
Honda will notify owners by mail in the coming weeks and advise them to take their vehicle to a dealership to replace the media oriented systems transport (MOST) cable harness and install a cover over the centre display connector.
Earlier this year, Honda had to recall nearly 24,000 vehicles in Canada—2018-2020 Fit and 2019-2022 HR-V models—because the battery voltage could drop when starting the engine and result in the centre display remaining black. Once again, this would cause the rear-view image not to appear when reversing.
In this case, however, the remedy is a simple software update to the display.