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Recall · 22V742000

Volkswagen Group of America recalled 24 models over back over prevention

170,296

Vehicles covered

24

Models

25

Model years

October 5, 2022

Filed with NHTSA

BACK OVER PREVENTION:DISPLAY FUNCTION

The defect
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2021 Audi A8, RS7, RS6 Avant, RS5 Sportback, RS5 Coupe, Q8, Q7, Q5 Sportback, S4 Sedan, Q5, A7, A6, A6 Allroad, A5 Sportback, A5 Coupe, A5 Cabrioleet, A4 Sedan, A4 Allroad, E-Tron Sportback Quattro, SQ7, S5 Cabriolet, E-Tron Quattro, SQ8, SQ5 Sportback, SQ5, S8, S7, S6 Sedan, S5 Sportback, S5 Coupe, 2022 E-Tron GT, and 2021-2022 RSQ8 vehicles. Due to a software issue, a blank or black screen may be displayed instead of the rearview camera image when the vehicle is placed in reverse gear. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."
What it can cause
A blank rearview camera display can reduce the driver's rear visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
What the dealer does
Dealers will update the infotainment unit software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 25, 2022. Owners may contact Audi's customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 91DZ.
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 .

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
AudiA420212021
AudiA52021Not published here
AudiA5 Cabriolet2021Not published here
AudiA620212021
AudiA72021Not published here
AudiA82021Not published here
AudiE-Tron20212021
AudiE-Tron GT2022Not published here
AudiQ520212021
AudiQ720212021
AudiQ820212021
AudiRS Q82021 to 2022Not published here
AudiRS52021Not published here
AudiRS62021Not published here
AudiRS72021Not published here
AudiS42021Not published here
AudiS52021Not published here
AudiS5 Cabriolet2021Not published here
AudiS62021Not published here
AudiS72021Not published here
AudiS82021Not published here
AudiSQ520212021
AudiSQ72021Not published here
AudiSQ82021Not published here

How this campaign compares

At 170,296 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 94% 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.

Audi vehicles have been recalled over the back over prevention 2 times before this, most recently in February 2022 as 22V064000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.

This site holds the complaint record for 12 of the 25 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 275 complaints with NHTSA, 68 of them before this campaign was filed. 14 of those name the back over prevention, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2021, 1 year before this filing.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 34 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V900000 (back over prevention), 25V227000 (air bags), 25V201000 (electrical system), 25V080000 (electrical system).

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Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. with NHTSA on October 5, 2022 as campaign 22V742000. 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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