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Recall Date: 5/21/2026
NHTSA ID: 26V332
MFr. Campaign Number: N/A
Manufacturer: Honda (American Honda Motor Co.)
Affected Components: Front passenger seat weight sensor
Potential Number of Units Affected: ~98,892
Which Honda and Acura vehicles are affected?
The recall spans 23 model-year combinations across the Honda and Acura lineups. Affected populations include:
The defect is a capacitor in the printed circuit board of the front passenger seat weight sensor. Exposure to environmental humidity can crack the capacitor and cause an internal short circuit. If the sensor fails, the front passenger frontal and knee airbags may deploy in a crash even when the occupant is an infant in a child seat, a child, or a person smaller than the AF5 reference, in cases where the system is supposed to suppress deployment.
The cause traces back to a natural disaster at a Tier 2 supplier facility. The Tier 1 supplier, Aisin Electronics Illinois, temporarily switched the PCB base material without sufficient verification. The replacement material allowed additional strain on the board, which is what cracks the capacitor.
When the sensor fails, the SRS warning light may illuminate, and the passenger airbag indicator may remain off.
What Honda and Acura owners need to know
The fix is a parts replacement, not a software update. Dealers will replace the seat weight sensor with a non-defective unit at no charge. The remedy components use the original, verified PCB base material, the same material installed in production on and after January 7, 2022.
Honda will notify dealers on or around May 22, 2026. Owner notification begins on or around July 6, 2026.
There is no “Do Not Drive” or “Park Outside” advisory. As of May 14, 2026, Honda had identified 228 warranty claims tied to the defect between February 2021 and October 2025, with no reports of injuries or deaths.
Honda recall background
This recall is an expansion of NHTSA campaign 24V064, which Honda opened in January 2024 for the same seat weight sensor defect. The current expansion was triggered after Honda received notification from the supplier in February 2025 that additional units were potentially affected, followed by a March 2025 report of a vehicle repaired outside the original recall population.
From there, Honda spent more than a year analyzing the revised population, including vehicles that received defective service parts. Honda formally determined the expanded defect on May 14, 2026.
For dealers, that history matters. A second-wave recall on the same defect means a portion of your active Honda and Acura customers may have received a notice in 2024, ignored it, and now sit inside a freshly expanded population with the same urgency. The operational challenge is figuring out which customers fall into which bucket and reaching them in a way that actually books service.
How BizzyCar can help
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For an expansion like 26V332, that means dealers can quickly identify which customers are newly affected, which were carryovers from 24V064, and which never closed out the original recall, then reach all three groups without adding manual work to the service department.
For more on the recall landscape this year, see BizzyCar's Q1 2026 Recall Report.
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