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Recall · 22V084000

Volkswagen Group of America recalled the AUDI E-Tron GT over seat belts

693

Vehicles covered

1

Model

1

Model years

February 16, 2022

Filed with NHTSA

SEAT BELTS: REAR/OTHER:BUCKLE ASSEMBLY

The defect
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2022 E-Tron GT vehicles. The center seat belt buckle wiring harness may obstruct access to the right rear seat lower child seat anchors, preventing a child seat from being properly secured. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 225, "Child Restraint Anchorage Systems."
What it can cause
An improperly secured child seat increases the risk of injury during a crash.
What the dealer does
Dealers will reroute and secure the center rear seat belt buckle wiring harness and, as necessary, replace a damaged buckle, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 15, 2022. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 72M6.
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 .

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
AudiE-Tron GT2022Not published here

How this campaign compares

At 693 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 54% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2022, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2022, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.

Audi vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 4 times before this, most recently in August 2021 as 21V606000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.

This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 7 complaints with NHTSA.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 12 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V900000 (back over prevention), 25V227000 (air bags), 24V726000 (electrical system), 24V465000 (service brakes, air).

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 February 16, 2022 as campaign 22V084000. 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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