Recall · 23V212000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the AUDI Q7 over forward collision avoidance
19
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
March 29, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2020 Q7 vehicles. Incompatibility between the front camera control software and the heating element used for the front camera on the windshield may cause the heating element to overheat.
- What it can cause
- An overheated heating element can increase the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the control software and replace the heater element for the front camera, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed May 26, 2023. Owners may contact Audi's customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 90N7.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| AudiQ7 | 2020 | 2020 |
How this campaign compares
At 19 vehicles this is a small campaign: 87% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 26 complaints with NHTSA, 4 of them before this campaign was filed. 2 of those name the forward collision avoidance, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2020, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 25V900000 (back over prevention), 22V516000 (fuel system, gasoline), 21V078000 (air bags), 20V658000 (structure).
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 March 29, 2023 as campaign 23V212000. 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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