An article on The Wall Street Journal is reporting the Japanese car maker will recall the cars globally to fix the problems with its Fit, CR-V, and CR-Z compact hybrid lines. Following the previous recalls last month the company has also received a bad Consumer Reports review for its 2012 Civic.

The company has said the latest recalls will set Honda back to the tune of $17 million in Japan, and is now recalling a further 936,000 cars from its Fit, City and CR-V ranges to fix a faulty master switch for the electric windows. Honda have said a design fault can allow the power switches to overheat that has resulted in two members of the public reporting light burns after touching them.

This latest recall affects models in the US, Europe, Japan, China, and countries in Africa and Asia. There were also nine other reports of affected vehicles catching fire in Japan and China because of the overheating switches.

Honda have also announced it is to recall around 26,000 CR-Z hybrid models in the US, Canada, Japan, and other regions due to defective programming of electronic control units for motors used by the model. Shares in the Japanese car maker fell by 4.7 percent after the news was announced to the world, which was a trend seen by other car manufacturers from the region.

The last couple of years have seen a lot of car recalls especially ones affecting Japanese car makers, who in the past have had the deserved reputation of being reliable and safe vehicles. Honda will be contacting owners of the vehicles involved and no accidents have been reported so far.

This is not the first recall by Honda this year, but it looks like being the biggest so far. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Japanese auto maker is recalling a total of 2.26 million vehicles in the US and China. The problem concerns automatic transmission on models such as the Accord, CR-V amongst others.

The recall is voluntary with around 1.5 million being recalled in the US to have the automatic transmission control software updated. There are around 760,515 vehicles due for recall in China. The vehicles affected in the US are some of the 2005 to 2010 four cylinder Accord, 2007 to 2010 CR-V, and 2005 to 2008 Element models.

Honda has said the recall came about due to problems with the transmission secondary shaft bearing, which can become damaged in the affected models if the transmission is quickly changed between any of the transmission drive positions. This could happen when owners were quickly changing between drive and reverse to try and get out of snow or mud.

There have been no reports of injuries or deaths because of the potential fault according to Honda. Honda have also said it will be recalling in China, 605,025 Accords made between July 2004 and October 2009, and also 151,489 Odyssey models manufactured between July 2004 and September 2009. Meanwhile 4,001 Spirior cars made between August and November 2009 are also being recalled, and no incidents have been reported in China either.

This latest recall is one of the biggest we have seen recently and makes you wonder how many more we are likely to see.