Recall · 22V086000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 2 models over equipment
3,648
Vehicles covered
2
Models
6
Model years
February 16, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2018-2021 Atlas and 2020-2021 Atlas Cross Sport vehicles equipped with accessory side steps. The reduced Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) label, reflecting the additional weight of the side steps, was not installed. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 110, "Tire Selection and Rims."
- What it can cause
- Without the reduced GVWR label, the vehicle could be overloaded, leading to a loss of control and increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install the reduced GVWR label, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 31, 2022. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 09D9.
- 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 3,648 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 72% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 17 times before this, most recently in June 2020 as 20V372000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,689 complaints with NHTSA, 413 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the equipment, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2017, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 22 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V590000 (steering), 24V464000 (air bags), 23V671000 (air bags), 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 February 16, 2022 as campaign 22V086000. 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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