Honda Motor Corporation is set to ask the first 12.000 US customers who purchased the 2015 Honda Fit subcompact vehicles to make a few changes to achieve top marks from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, announced the automaker.

The action is targeted at allowing the manufacturer to refurbish the vehicles with robust front bumpers to make them more stable in case of an accident. The statement released by the IIHS reports that the action is not a recall due to safety issues.

Honda Fit models have been termed by the IIHS as one of the worst models of 11 subcompact cars tested to simulated what will happen when the front part of a car in case of collision with pole, tree or another car. Only Chevrolet Spark sustained the head on collision and scored well.

The model has suffered a lot due to this. Actually, the release of the 2015 Honda Fit was put off for some time as the sales decreased by approximately 12% compared with the previous year.

The automaker will start notifying the owners to bring in their vehicles after the month of September. It`s a second chance for Honda to improve on the levels of protection and be tested again.

To get an IIHS “Top Safety Pick” a car should at least rated “acceptable” in “small front overlap” tests and “good” in four other tests. The automaker has changed the way it made the vehicles in Mexico by adding more solid welds to a steal beam behind the face of the front bumper and asked the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety for another test.

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