Recall · 21V812000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 3 models over wheels
30
Vehicles covered
3
Models
3
Model years
October 15, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
WHEELS:LUGS/NUTS/BOLTS/STUDS
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2021 Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport, and Passat vehicles. The front wheel bearing bolts may have been incorrectly tightened.
- What it can cause
- The bolts may loosen and cause a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the tightness of the wheel bearing bolts and replace the bolts, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 2, 2021. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 40R7.
- 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 30 vehicles this is a small campaign: 83% 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 one model year, 2021, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2021, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the wheels 2 times before this, most recently in March 2021 as 21V132000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 644 complaints with NHTSA, 25 of them before this campaign was filed. 6 of those name the wheels, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 16 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V464000 (air bags), 23V215000 (air bags), 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 October 15, 2021 as campaign 21V812000. 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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