Recall · 21V318000
Porsche Cars North America recalled 4 models over seats
136
Vehicles covered
4
Models
7
Model years
May 5, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS
- The defect
- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2021 Cayenne GTS, Cayenne GTS Coupe, 2020-2021 Cayenne Coupe, Cayenne S Coupe, Cayenne E-Hybrid Coupe vehicles. The passenger seat back heating element was not installed and may impact the calibration of the Occupant Classification System.
- What it can cause
- The front passenger air bag may fail to deploy, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install a heating element, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 25, 2021. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is AMB0.
- 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 136 vehicles this is a small campaign: 66% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Porsche vehicles have been recalled over the seats 2 times before this, most recently in February 2004 as 04V072000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 42 complaints with NHTSA, 1 of them before this campaign was filed.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 7 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V896000 (back over prevention), 23V841000 (electrical system), 22V040000 (suspension), 21V493000 (steering).
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 Porsche Cars North America, Inc. with NHTSA on May 5, 2021 as campaign 21V318000. 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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