Recall · 21V142000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the VOLKSWAGEN Atlas over tires
2,535
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
March 5, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
TIRES:SIDEWALL
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2018-2019 Atlas vehicles equipped with Continental tires. On the affected vehicles, it is possible that one or more tires were cured for too long during tire production.
- What it can cause
- Over cured tires may develop a break in the sidewall, resulting in sudden air loss or belt edge separation which could lead to tread/belt loss. Either condition can cause a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Volkswagen will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the tires, and replace them as necessary, free of charge. The recall began on March 24, 2021. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 44R1.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 2,535 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 68% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the tires 5 times before this, most recently in November 2020 as 20V702000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 933 complaints with NHTSA, 288 of them before this campaign was filed. 6 of those name the tires, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2017, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 9 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V590000 (steering), 23V671000 (air bags), 23V215000 (air bags), 22V815000 (tires).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. with NHTSA on March 5, 2021 as campaign 21V142000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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