Honda recalls 440,000 Civic and Insight cars

By The Associated Press, 3/2/2004

WASHINGTON — Honda is recalling 440,000 Civic and Insight cars because their low-beam headlights can fail without warning, the company said Tuesday.

No injuries have resulted from the defect, Honda spokesman Andy Boyd said. The recall involves 2001-2002 model year Civics and 2000-2002 model year Insights.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which also announced the recall, the headlights’ wire harness can overheat and cause the low-beam headlights to fail. Boyd said drivers could still use their high-beam headlights in all cases.

Honda will begin notifying owners this month about the recall. Dealers will perform free repairs on the vehicles whether or not they show any heat damage.

 

I wonder how that decision was made? "Let's not recall all those Honda automatics that are downshifting on the highway while people are doing 70mph. Let's replace the headlight wiring harnesses in the Civics. Yeah, that's the ticket"

 

keep those blue APC bulbs out of them and they won't overheat

 

Haha, that's what I thought too, as well as those pesky 8,000K and 10,000K bulbs