Recall · 21V492000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the VOLKSWAGEN Jetta over air bags
379
Vehicles covered
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Model
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Model years
June 30, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS: AIR BAG/RESTRAINT CONTROL MODULE
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Jetta and Jetta GLI vehicles. The air bag control module was welded in the incorrect position.
- What it can cause
- Incorrect positioning of the air bag control module can cause the vehicle's air bags to deploy improperly during a crash, increasing the risk of injury. Additionally, the vehicle's air bags can deploy unintentionally, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the air bag control module, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on January 28, 2022. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 69CK.
- 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.nhtsa.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 379 vehicles this is a small campaign: 52% 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.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 23 times before this, most recently in December 2020 as 20V785000. 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 117 complaints with NHTSA, 10 of them before this campaign was filed. 6 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 8 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V110000 (fuel system, gasoline), 23V604000 (electrical system), 22V815000 (tires), 22V514000 (back over prevention).
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 June 30, 2021 as campaign 21V492000. 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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