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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 000059108 | Incident Date: Jan, 24 2000 |
| Consumer's City: DAVIS | Consumer's State: CA |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: | Manufacturers Name: Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) |
| Model Name: ACCORD | Model Year: 1991 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Latches/locks/linkages:doors:latch |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1HGCB7252MA | Date added to File: May, 25 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Nov, 15 2000 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Aug, 31 1991 |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: No |
| Number of Cylinders: 0 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: Driver's-side door latch just failed and the door was jammed shut. this is the only case of a door latch just failing in any vehicle that i or any of my family/friends have ever owned. this cost over $700 to repair (since the door was jammed shut)and although honda has unofficial documents about the drilling (from the inside) procedure to release the jammed latch, they have no official document relating to this. when i contacted the local dealership, and subsequently the regional service manager, i was basically told "sorry, your car is past the warranty" - end of story. from the reports i have seen on this web site and in talking with a local honda mechanic, it turns out that there have been numerous failures of this type. this leads me to believe that the original door latch design is defective, since i have never owned any car (of any age) or even heard of a car (besides the accord reports i got from this web site and the local honda mechanic) where the door latch just failed. i believe that this represents a major safety hazard, since if the latch mechanism is prone to failure without any outside influence, then that mechanism will be much more likely to fail in the event of a crash, jamming the driver's side door shut and preventing easy exit from the vehicle. i believe that the honda corporation should be compelled to correct this deficiency by replacing the faulty door latch mechanisms, or at least offering to compensate those individuals who have had to spend what i believe to be an inordinate sum of money to repair a manufacturing defect. it has taken me nearly a year to get around to writing this, and i would be willing to bet that for each person who files a complaint with the nhtsa there are hundreds more who don't know about your agency or don't have the time to file a report. thank you.*ak |
