Recall · 22V152000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 2 models over air bags
222,892
Vehicles covered
2
Models
9
Model years
March 28, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Atlas, 2020-2023 Atlas Cross Sport, and 2021-2023 Atlas FL vehicles. The door wiring harness electrical contacts may corrode, disrupting the electrical connection and delaying the deployment of the driver or passenger front side air bag during a side impact crash.
- What it can cause
- A delayed air bag deployment can increase the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will secure and, as necessary, replace any the front door wiring harnesses showing a fault code, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 20, 2022. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 97GF.
- 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 222,892 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 95% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 24 times before this, most recently in June 2021 as 21V492000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,622 complaints with NHTSA, 182 of them before this campaign was filed. 337 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 December 2018, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 24 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V590000 (steering), 25V434000 (service brakes), 24V464000 (air bags), 23V671000 (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 March 28, 2022 as campaign 22V152000. 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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