Recall · 22V176000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 2 models over suspension
10,119
Vehicles covered
2
Models
3
Model years
March 23, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
SUSPENSION
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2022 Tiguan, Taos, and 2021 Tiguan long wheel base (LWB) vehicles. A second notice will be sent once remedy parts become available. The left or right rear suspension knuckles may corrode, crack, and break.
- What it can cause
- A broken rear suspension knuckle can cause a loss of stability, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and, if necessary, replace one or both rear suspension knuckles, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 13, 2022. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 42L8.
- 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 10,119 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 79% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2022, 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 suspension 8 times before this, most recently in March 2019 as 19V188000. 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 706 complaints with NHTSA, 26 of them before this campaign was filed. 5 of those name the suspension, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 10 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V082000 (back over prevention), 23V214000 (fuel system, gasoline), 22V687000 (engine and engine cooling), 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 March 23, 2022 as campaign 22V176000. 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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