Recall · 22V823000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 7 models over back over prevention
2,607
Vehicles covered
7
Models
9
Model years
November 2, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
BACK OVER PREVENTION:DISPLAY FUNCTION
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2022 Golf R A8, Audi S3, RS3 Sedan, Q4 E-Tron SUV, A3 Sedan, and 2022-2023 Volkswagen Golf GTI, and ID4 vehicles. The rearview camera image may be blank or unresponsive when the vehicle is placed in reverse gear or when the park function is manually activated. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."
- What it can cause
- An inoperative rearview camera display can reduce the driver's rear visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the rearview camera, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed to Audi owners February 14, 2023. Volkswagen owners will receive an owner notification letter once remedy parts become available. Owners may contact Volkswagen's customer service at 1-800-893-5298 and Audi's customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Volkswagen's numbers for this recall are (Volkswagen) 91EK and (Audi) 91EL.
- 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 2,607 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 68% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2022, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the back over prevention 3 times before this, most recently in October 2022 as 22V742000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 6 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 639 complaints with NHTSA, 8 of them before this campaign was filed. 61 of those name the back over prevention, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 31 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V030000 (electrical system), 26V028000 (electrical system), 25V836000 (electrical system), 25V434000 (service brakes).
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 November 2, 2022 as campaign 22V823000. 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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