Recall · 22V815000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 11 models over tires
296,044
Vehicles covered
11
Models
18
Model years
October 31, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
TIRES:PRESSURE MONITORING AND REGULATING SYSTEMS
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2019 Volkswagen Tiguan LWB, Golf Sportswagen A7, Golf Alltrack, Golf R GP, Audi Q3, Audi A3 Cabriolet, 2019-2020 Jetta NF, Jetta GLI, Golf GTI, Atlas, Golf A7, Audi A3, 2020-2021 Atlas Cross Sport, and 2021 Atlas FL vehicles. The tire pressure monitoring system may not detect an air pressure loss in adequate time when deflating occurs among all four tires simultaneously. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 138, "Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems."
- What it can cause
- An undetected sudden loss of pressure in all four tires increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the TPMS software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 18, 2022. Owners may contact Volkswagen's customer service at 1-800-893-5298 or Audis customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Volkswagen's numbers for this recall are (Audi) 45J7, and (VW) 45J6 and 45J8.
- 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.safercar.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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| AudiA3 | 2019 to 2020 | 20192020 |
| AudiQ3 | 2019 | 2019 |
| VolkswagenAtlas | 2019 to 2021 | 201920202021 |
| VolkswagenAtlas Cross Sport | 2020 to 2021 | 20202021 |
| VolkswagenGolf | 2019 to 2020 | 2019 |
| VolkswagenGolf Alltrack | 2019 | 2019 |
| VolkswagenGolf R | 2019 | Not published here |
| VolkswagenGolf Sportwagen | 2019 | 2019 |
| VolkswagenGTI | 2019 to 2020 | 20192020 |
| VolkswagenJetta | 2019 to 2020 | 20192020 |
| VolkswagenTiguan | 2019 | 2019 |
How this campaign compares
At 296,044 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 96% 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 2021, 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 tires 7 times before this, most recently in April 2021 as 21V274000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 18 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,336 complaints with NHTSA, 1,141 of them before this campaign was filed. 15 of those name the tires, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in August 2018, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 29 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V590000 (steering), 24V464000 (air bags), 24V110000 (fuel system, gasoline), 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 October 31, 2022 as campaign 22V815000. 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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