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Honda Accord 2008–2009technical service bulletin

Bulletin DLR MSG - HONDA · NHTSA communication 10088006 · issued Mar 18, 2016

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2008–2009
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

"dealer message - american honda previously announced safety recalls for some 2008 and 2009 accord sedan vehicles to reflash and/or replace the srs control units to reduce the potential for inadvertent deployment and improve crash detection. Vehicles affected by the possibility of inadvertent deployment now have an available repair. The recently updated bulletin 15-078, safety recall: 2008 09 accord srs unit update (rewrite) is updated and it allows affected vehicles to receive the recommended repair. Software to support this campaign has been deployed in the most recent hds software deploymen

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.