This was a huge contention point between Honda and Acura. Despite many Hondas and Acuras sharing models and parts, the dealers hate the paperwork to do crossovers. There's also a weird distance minimum that has to be covered for a Honda dealer to be "allowed" to handle the Acura repair.

If you have any mail or door material with regard to your vehicle that has a contact number to the national office, I'd suggest getting in touch with them. Dealers are sensitive pains in the ass to work with sometimes

Edit: have your VIN on hand. Also, depending on if you need your vehicle there may be an option for either a rental or a tow-fix-return tow.

Basically everyone was affected, but it was to what degree. Honda was the most affected. At one point, the team I was on just regionally within our state started out looking for about 2,000 alphas(highest risk), then it ballooned to about 10,000 phase two vehicles a little less than a year later. We never got close to all affected Hondas by the time the pandemic hit.

The scale of resources required to reach everyone was expensive for Honda and it was stunning to encounter people who really did not care or were utterly hostile to you visiting. It would not surprise me if Honda has spent 4-5 billion dollars to this point

https://www.recalls.gov/nhtsa.html

Get your VIN of your car and check that. I didn't see civics from your year when I was doing field work but it does not mean it wasn't affected

To answer your question, it is highly unlikely your car is affected by this specific recall.

Most Honda models that were affected were between the years 2001-2016ish? Maybe even into 2018. It was also not uniform across models. '01 accords had mostly the driver side affected but passenger side would be fine and the civics would usually have both affected.

Without looking at your car, my guess is your airbags probably failed to deploy from vehicle and component age. Electrical components and sensors get funky over time. For all I know your inflator in your car may be disconnected or you may not have an inflator at all. I'm looking through some Google searches and it says some accord sedan body types dont have passenger airbags

Some components on the car wear down and break over time. Sensors become more sensitive or electrical components trigger more easily

I was one of the guys who was going into junkyards to confirm the status of those inflators, eventually the salvage yards jumped on to programs Honda worked with that would buy the inflators out of the yard and ensure their destruction, or get back to Honda for testing purposes to monitor failure rates

Ok so this is a weird one. Basically as someone else said in another thread, the company that made the airbag inflators made a lot of them for a lot of automakers for a long time.

Prior to other companies being able to produce the inflators for permanent replacement, you had a handful of options for your car until autoliv and other companies got the necessary inflators

-Dont drive the car, leaving it either at home or on a dealer's lot

-drive the car on your own at your own risk(you could still file a suit if injured, the waiver merely acknowledged the risks were explained to you)

-be put in a rental for an unknown period of time(Honda exhausted enterprise's rental inventory at one point)

-put a new version of the defective airbag to reset the failure timer(heat, time and humidity being the most responsible for airbag failure)

-some folks went as far to disconnect the inflator entirely

It resulted in weird situations where honda dealers had vehicle owners swear with sugar on top that if they drove a car because the other options were exhausted or they couldn't be without their car, and they had passengers, they'd endeavor to put the passenger in the back seat which very likely ensured maybe a little more protection

I worked in the field for Honda on this kind of stuff, it was a very interesting few years

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Dealers for a while had waivers that said if you have a passenger in the car, you promise to put them in the back seat

Used to work the door to door component of Honda's recall outreach prior to the pandemic.

I get that given the number of airbag deaths is low compared to total number of affected components that it seems like the risks are low. Don't care.

Get it done, call your Honda dealer, it's free and the repair once the car rolls into the shop is under 15 minutes for the steering wheel and a little bit longer for the passenger component.

It's like having a shotgun or claymore pointed at your face, and even mundane tiny bumps can trigger the airbag sensor the old your car gets.

One dealer I worked with said a girl literally got out of her car at the dealer(key in ignition, I believe still running) and slammed the door closed in prep to get something out of her back seat and the airbag deployed with shrapnel. Luckily it was just a new seat for her car that was needed

Edit: clarity