{"id":6887,"date":"2015-07-29T13:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2015-07-29T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T17:51:02","slug":"acura-mdx-ac-clutch-bolt-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6887","title":{"rendered":"Acura MDX A\/C Clutch Bolt Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A manufacturing error affecting certain 2014-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-ACURA\/MDX\/2015\/\">2015 Acura MDX and MDX AWD<\/a> vehicles will have approximately 106,439 owners returning to their dealership for repairs.  <\/p>\n<p>According to reports, during manufacturing of the A\/C compressor clutch drive bolts, certain lots failed to receive the proper dielectric topcoat.  As a result, the bolts are more susceptible to corrosion and could break during operation.  In addition, some bolt lots did not receive sufficient curing of the e-coat which could result in low torque values and low hardness.  The bolts could loosen and fall off during operation.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Honda will notify owners, and dealers will replace the air conditioning compressor clutch drive bolt and install a new clutch plate as necessary. For more information about the problem, owners are asked to contact Acura client relations at 1-800-382-2238. Honda&#8217;s number for this recall is JQ7 and the NHTSA campaign number is 15V-417.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A manufacturing error affecting certain 2014-2015 Acura MDX and MDX AWD vehicles will have approximately 106,439 owners returning to their dealership for repairs. According to reports, during manufacturing of the A\/C compressor clutch drive bolts, certain lots failed to receive the proper dielectric topcoat. As a result, the bolts are more susceptible to corrosion and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[837,59,1317],"tags":[1135,1115,1374],"class_list":["post-6887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acura-recalls","category-honda","category-lemon-alert","tag-corrosion-problem","tag-manufacturer-defect","tag-manufacturing-error"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6888,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}