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Honda Accord 2016–2019technical service bulletin

Bulletin APaS08072020903 · NHTSA communication 10178460 · issued Aug 7, 2020

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment Adaptive/mobility
component
2016–2019
model years
9
vehicle entries

Official summary

Dealer Message - American Honda Motor Co., Inc. (AHM) is searching for certain 2018-2019 Accords, 2016-2019 Civics & 2017-2019 CR-Vs with a customer complaint of an oil leak at the valve cover. To better understand the cause of this condition, AHM would like to collect specific parts from the vehicle prior to you attempting a repair of any kind.

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.