This is one of the more unique recalls I’ve seen. Honda is offering to replace driveshafts on certain 2013 Accord sedans through a recall. But only if the car was registered in a state that uses a lot of road salt during the winter. The logic is that the salt could have fast-tracked rust and these components could wear out fast and break. Here’s the affected vehicles.

• 2013 Honda Accord (configured with i4/CVT)

The Honda Accord driveshaft recall

This specific sedan has an engine up front and a transmission beneath the engine. A pair of driveshafts (individually called “half shafts”) connect the transmission to each of the front wheels. This recall doesn’t affect top trim Accords with the V6 engine and heavy-duty transmission.

There are a couple intriguing aspects of this recall. First and foremost, Honda is currently only extending the driveshaft recall to 2013 model year Accords. But presumably the automaker used the same powertrain components in multiple years of the eighth-generation accord (2007-2011). So we’ll just have to wait and see if the recalled model years increase.

In addition, you tend to see powertrain recalls for earlier model years of a given vehicle generation. A recall affecting the final generation is odd–usually the manufacturer has big problems worked out by then. Perhaps it tried something different–such as a rubber boot to protect the half shafts–that captured enough road salt to rust them prematurely.

Finally, Honda is confident the half shafts connecting the transmission and front wheels will hold up fine–if its Accords aren’t exposed to road salt. Obviously, the salt used to de-ice roads in northern states is very hard on metal components in cars. But they can also rust for other reasons, such as when driven in salty coastal towns. But Honda is only offering to replace rusty 2013 Accord half shafts that were registered in certain states.

Those states are Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

This recall affects 65,100 Hondas

Honda is hoping that will total 65,100 cars. But that’s not accounting for any Accords that were sold in a southern state and then re-registered in a northern state. So again, we may see these numbers rise.

If you have a 2013 Accord that was ever registered in any of the above states, you can ask your Honda dealership about recall OM2. If you want to know if any car–Honda or otherwise–has open recalls, you can call your local dealership with your VIN handy. You can also punch in your VIN at NHTSA.gov.