Recall · 23V086000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the AUDI Q7 over equipment
12,100
Vehicles covered
1
Model
7
Model years
February 15, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2009-2015 Q7 vehicles. The Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR) listed on the certification label is incorrect, which can allow the vehicle to be overloaded. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 110, "Tire Selection and Rims," and Part 567, "Certification."
- What it can cause
- An overloaded vehicle can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install an overlay label containing the correct rear GAWR on top of the existing safety certification label, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 24, 2023. Owners may contact Audi's customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 50G5.
- 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 12,100 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 81% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2009 to 2015, so the oldest vehicles on it were 14 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the equipment 7 times before this, most recently in December 2022 as 22V901000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 232 complaints with NHTSA, 180 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2010, 12 years before this filing.
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 February 15, 2023 as campaign 23V086000. 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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