Recall · 22V543000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 10 models over air bags
1,216
Vehicles covered
10
Models
10
Model years
July 27, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2016 Audi TT Roadster, TT Coupe, S3 Sedan, R8 Coupe, A3 Sedan, A3 Etron, A3 Cabriolet, 2016 Golf Sportwagen, Golf R, Golf GTI, Golf A7, and E Golf vehicles. During air bag deployment, the front passenger air bag may explode or deploy improperly.
- What it can cause
- An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking occupants, resulting in serious injury or death. An improper air bag deployment may not properly restrain the occupant, increasing their risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the front-passenger air bag module, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 16, 2022. Owners may contact Volkswagen's customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Audi's customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 69DY and 61C1.
- 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 1,216 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 61% 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, 2016, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 41 times before this, most recently in July 2022 as 22V471000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 7 of the 10 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 327 complaints with NHTSA, 193 of them before this campaign was filed. 79 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 2015, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 24V110000 (fuel system, gasoline), 22V831000 (visibility/wiper), 21V198000 (air bags), 20V076000 (fuel system, gasoline).
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 July 27, 2022 as campaign 22V543000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2022-07-27.
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