American Honda is recalling 4,804 hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles a second time because the parts shipped to fix their tire repair kits were not all the corrected design. The affected cars are 2023-2026 Accord Hybrids, 2023-2026 CR-V Hybrids and one 2025 CR-V e:FCEV, and the new campaign is numbered 26V663.
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The cause sits at a supplier warehouse, not on Honda’s assembly line, and it left some owners with a repaired kit that still carries the original flaw. For an owner who already made the dealer trip once, the news is a reminder that a completed recall is not always a closed one.
How old nozzles ended up in the replacement stock
The first recall, 26V366, was filed in June 2026 for the flat tire repair kit, which contains a nozzle with a one-way valve. According to Honda’s newsroom release dated October 14, 2026, pressure can build in the sealant bottle if the nozzle is improperly connected to the tire valve, and excessive pressure may cause the bottle cap to detach. The remedy for that recall was a nozzle without the one-way valve. Honda says the supplier “did not implement adequate change-point management,” which left disposal controls missing for pre-countermeasure parts. Those older parts were then mixed with the corrected ones in the supplier’s warehouse, and some of them shipped to dealers as remedy parts. Honda’s release identifies the gap as a process failure at the supplier, the missing disposal controls for the older nozzles, and not as a new design flaw in the corrected nozzle itself.
Honda describes the result in plain terms: affected vehicles received tire repair kits that still contained pre-countermeasure components, meaning the nozzle and its one-way valve were the same as before the first repair.
The 4,804 vehicles, model by model
The release breaks the count into nine groups. Accord Hybrid: 542 from model year 2023, 700 from 2024, 630 from 2025 and 186 from 2026. CR-V Hybrid: 443 from 2023, 795 from 2024, 772 from 2025 and 735 from 2026. The ninth group is a single 2025 CR-V Fuel Cell EV, built on December 9, 2024. Honda says the population was determined from manufacturing records and reflects every vehicle that could experience the problem, and it estimates that about 1 percent of them actually carry the defective part.
The entry in the federal recall dataset was received on October 8, 2026 and shows the same 4,804 figure, with the subject “Tire Repair Kit Bottle Cap May Detach.” Its listed consequence is that a detached cap can become a projectile and injure the user or people nearby.
What owners are told to do
Dealers have been notified, with the release giving about October 9, 2026 as the dealer notification date, and Honda says owner letters are expected on or about November 16, 2026. At the dealer, technicians will inspect the kit and replace the nozzle as needed, free of charge. The release states that the new remedy component does not have a one-way valve, which is the feature that made the original design vulnerable. The federal record adds that vehicles already repaired under 26V366 need the new remedy, so a car that has been to the dealer once for this problem is not necessarily done. The Honda release says owners will be contacted by mail and should take the vehicle to an authorized Honda dealer, and the federal record lists Honda’s customer line as 1-866-784-1870 for questions about the campaign, whose internal designation is PPW.
Unlike the first recall, the new filing carries no instruction to park the car or stop driving, and the record marks neither a fire risk nor a do-not-drive condition. Owners with an affected vehicle can check by VIN on NHTSA’s page for 26V663; the federal record says VIN searches open on October 17, 2026, a day after publication of this article.
The scale of the first recall
The earlier campaign was far larger. The report for 26V366, filed June 4, 2026, lists 305,013 Accord Hybrids, 744,530 CR-V Hybrids and 340 CR-V Fuel Cell EVs, a manufacturer total of 1,049,883 vehicles. As of May 28, 2026, Honda had counted 53 warranty claims and 8 injury reports tied to the problem in the United States, with no deaths. The tire kit in that recall was made by TEK Corporation, and some relief valves had been improperly adjusted during supplier manufacturing, so they might not release pressure.
Against that backdrop, the 4,804 vehicles are a small slice, about half of one percent of the original population. Their importance lies in what the new filing shows: a fix that is itself recalled leaves owners with a repeat trip and a second letter, and the second-round paperwork arrives through the same federal recall system that tracks every open campaign.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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