Honda Is Recalling the Recall: 4,804 CR-V and Accord Hybrids Got the Wrong Tire-Kit Part
Supplier TEK mixed old nozzles in with the new ones, so some owners who already had the June fix left the dealer with the same part Honda was replacing. VIN lookup opens October 17.
Honda is recalling 4,804 CR-V Hybrids, Accord Hybrids, and a single CR-V e:FCEV that already went through a dealer for the company's June tire-repair-kit recall. The reason is awkward: some of those cars left the shop with the same part the recall was supposed to remove. The CR-V Hybrid is the top seller in our CR-V Hybrid vs. RAV4 Hybrid comparison, so the pool of potentially affected owners is large even if this follow-up is small.
The new campaign is NHTSA recall 26V663, filed on October 8. It covers 2,745 CR-V Hybrids from the 2023–2026 model years, 2,058 Accord Hybrids from the same years, and one 2025 CR-V e:FCEV. Honda estimates that about 1 percent of them actually carry the wrong part, but it can't tell which ones without an inspection.
What went wrong the first time
The original recall, 26V366, was filed in June and covered 1,049,883 vehicles: 744,530 CR-V Hybrids, 305,013 Accord Hybrids, and 340 fuel-cell CR-Vs. None of these cars carry a spare tire. Instead, they ship with a sealant bottle and a nozzle that threads onto the tire valve. That nozzle has a one-way valve, and if it isn't seated properly, pressure can build inside the bottle instead of flowing into the tire. If the relief valve then fails, the cap can blow off.
By the time Honda decided to recall the kits in late May, it had logged 53 warranty claims and eight injuries going back to September 2022. The chronology in that filing isn't flattering: Honda received the first report in April 2023, and the supplier twice attributed the problem to owner misuse before Honda identified a relief-valve issue in March 2026.
The fix was simple. Dealers swap in a redesigned nozzle that has no one-way valve at all.
How the fix went wrong
Both the original nozzle and the replacement come from TEK Corporation of Troy, Michigan. According to Honda's filing, the supplier didn't keep the two versions apart in its warehouse while building up stock for the recall, and some of the old nozzles shipped out as remedy parts. A dealer flagged the mismatch on July 3. Honda and TEK spent July and August going through inventory and shipment records, and Honda concluded on October 1 that a safety defect existed. As of that date, it had no warranty claims and no injuries tied to the mistaken replacements.
Honda says TEK will move to a system-controlled process that stops parts with different configuration or disposition statuses from being mixed. That is the kind of language that usually means the sorting was being done by hand.
Repeat recalls aren't rare. Stellantis is on its third try at a Grand Cherokee spring recall. What's unusual here is that the failure happened in the parts pipeline rather than in the engineering of the remedy itself.
What owners should do
The remedy is an inspection, with a nozzle replacement only if the dealer finds an old part. Dealers were notified around October 9, and owner letters go out around November 16. According to listings on NHTSA's recall portal, affected VINs become searchable there and on Honda's site on October 17.
Honda hasn't said how an owner can tell the two nozzles apart on their own, so the practical advice is the same as in June: if your car was repaired under 26V366, check the VIN tools on October 17, and don't use the kit until a dealer has confirmed the part. Honda's June guidance pointed owners with a flat to Honda Roadside Assistance at 866-864-5211 in the meantime.
For a company that just laid out a next-generation hybrid system for 15 models by 2030, the tire kit is a reminder that the cheapest component in the trunk can still generate the most paperwork. The Accord Hybrid cost-to-own comparison didn't factor in two dealer visits for one part, and nobody should have to.
