Honda Jazz / Fit has won many awards for being a great car but what owners of the said car does not know is that it has issues with the wheel bearings failing. Honda has issued recalls for the Honda Civic with wheel bearing failures - http://nhthqnwws111.odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/acms/docservlet/Artemis/Public/Recalls/200 7/V/RCDNN-07V399-1316.pdf . Why no recall for the Jazz / Fit?

They both had recalls for Handbrake issues (http://clubjazz.org/blog/comment/faulty-civic-handbrakes.html
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http://www.recalls.gov.au/view_recall_detail.php?Recall_ID_Auto=15998)

The wheel bearings fail at around 40,000km intervals. Some as early as 20,000km. Some have had the bearings replaced multiple times.

The Service Bulletin # SB038T08 will stand for how long?

Below are of owners reporting problems with their bearings on different Honda forum website.

Evidence of this is from owners of said vehicle reporting the problem on jazz forum and other car review website:

www.ozhonda.com
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http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88849&highlight=jazz+wheel+bearing

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94497&highlight=jazz+wheel+bearing

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13942&highlight=jazz+wheel+bearing &page=2

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13942&highlight=jazz+wheel+bearing &page=3

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80830&highlight=jazz+wheel+bearing &page=2

www.fitfreak.net
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http://www.fitfreak.net/forums/general-fit-talk/26882-wheel-bearing-failure-peop le-check.html

http://www.fitfreak.net/forums/1st-generation-gd-01-08/38955-07-fit-wheel-bearin g-issue.html

http://www.fitfreak.net/forums/fit-yourself-discuss-do-yourself-repair-maintenan ce/17101-odd-sound.html

clubjazz.org
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http://clubjazz.org/forum/jazz_rear_wheel_bearings-t304.0.html

www.singaporecarsforum.com
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http://www.singaporecarsforum.com/carforum/showthread.php?t=14

forum.sg-fit-jazz.com (requires registering)
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http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=51365

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=50200

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=50049

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=49932

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=45812

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=34904

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=36256

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=36195

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=31801

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=32774

http://forum.sg-fit-jazz.com/viewtopic.php?t=31518

www.shc-forum.com
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http://www.shc-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=43700&sid=d931e5a1ffb308196b91763b41d9a df4

http://www.shc-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=116445&sid=8dfff392384ff235f35a98927e1c b419

Other
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http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&langpair=ja|en&u=http://209.85.20 1.100/search%3Fq%3Dcache:6cB39tS7fdwJ:minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/381354/car/28 8534/460587/note.aspx%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26cd%3D2&prev=/translate_s%3Fhl%3Den %26q%3Dhonda%2Bfit%2Bwheel%2Bbearing%26sl%3Den%26tl%3Dja

http://www.zerotohundred.com/newforums/honda/263974-honda-jazz-drivetrain-proble m.html

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:hOckJtyVBG8J:ausjazz.org/forum/viewtopic.ph p%3Ft%3D2290%26start%3D15%26sid%3D61befe8b113e7f226ed6b2f3ebbf24f5+how+to+change +jazz+wheel+bearing&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=au