Honda siel today announced a re-call of 60,000 city sedan in India. The company would replace the lost motion spring in the valve train in City cars manufactured between November 2008 and December 2009, Honda Siel Cars India Ltd. said. The replacement would be done free of cost by informing customers directly, it added. Honda said the recall doesn’t impact the latest version of the City sedan that is currently produced and sold in India.
“Honda Siel is proactively replacing the part in these vehicles with a new improved part,” it said. “Lost motion springs, which are compressed by rocker arms in normal engine use, may bend or break over time, resulting in abnormal engine noise and potentially causing engine stalling and problems in re-starting.” This will be the second recall of City sedans in about a year. In January last year the auto maker recalled 8,532 City sedans manufactured in 2007 to replace defective power window switches that could cause a fire. Honda currently produces the City, Jazz, Civic and Accord cars in India. It also imports and markets the CR-V sport utility vehicle.