Overview
- Vehicles covered include 2016–2021 Honda Civics equipped with certain 18-inch accessory aluminum wheels purchased through Honda.
- The defect involves missing steel lug seat inserts that can let the seating surface deform, loosening lug nuts and allowing a wheel to separate, increasing crash risk.
- Dealers have been notified and will inspect all four wheels and replace affected wheels plus front and rear hubs at no cost, with owner notifications slated for around December 8 (NHTSA recall 25E071).
- Although 406,290 cars are in the recall, Honda says only 3,276 of the specific accessory wheels were sold in the U.S., and NHTSA documents estimate about 0.1% of vehicles will require replacements.
- The issue was traced to an Italian supplier after a barrier change let unfinished wheels ship without press-fitted inserts; the wheels were built roughly December 2018–2019, the plant’s manufacturing department closed in 2023, and Honda reports no injuries as of October 23.