Recall · 21V321000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 8 models over unknown or other
46
Vehicles covered
8
Models
10
Model years
May 5, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2017 Touareg GP, Tiguan, Golf A6, E-Golf GP, CCF, 2016-2017 Passat GP, 2018-2019 Golf R GP, and 2018 Atlas vehicles. These internal-use vehicles were sold without confirmation that they were built to all applicable regulatory requirements and may have been modified prior to sale. As such, these vehicles may fail to comply with the requirements of various Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
- What it can cause
- Vehicles that do not meet all regulatory requirements may have an increased risk of injury, crash, or fire.
- What the dealer does
- Volkswagen will repurchase the vehicles. Owner notification letters were mailed May 20, 2021. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 01F1.
- 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 46 vehicles this is a small campaign: 80% of the 14,908 vehicle recalls with a published size filed from 1995 up to this one are as large or larger. The middle campaign among them covers 488. It covers model years 2016 to 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the unknown or other 3 times before this, most recently in September 2020 as 20V561000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 8 of the 10 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 917 complaints with NHTSA, 386 of them before this campaign was filed. 136 of those name the unknown or other, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2016, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 9 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V590000 (steering), 24V834000 (air bags), 24V110000 (fuel system, gasoline), 23V215000 (air bags).
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 May 5, 2021 as campaign 21V321000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes. Data last checked 2021-05-05.
Independent developer and analyst