Recall · 22V226000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the VOLKSWAGEN Tiguan over structure
6,553
Vehicles covered
1
Model
5
Model years
April 6, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2022 Tiguan and 2018-2021 Tiguan long wheel base (LWB) vehicles. Due to incorrect installation instructions, the accessory rear hatch spoiler may be insufficiently attached to the vehicle.
- What it can cause
- An insufficiently attached spoiler may separate from the vehicle, becoming a road hazard and increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the spoiler, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 3, 2022. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 66N5.
- 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 6,553 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 76% 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 2022, 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 structure 5 times before this, most recently in September 2021 as 21V732000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,004 complaints with NHTSA, 321 of them before this campaign was filed. 77 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2017, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 12 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V590000 (steering), 25V082000 (back over prevention), 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 April 6, 2022 as campaign 22V226000. 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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