Recall · 23V868000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 5 models over air bags
1,001
Vehicles covered
5
Models
9
Model years
December 20, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2023-2024 SQ8, RSQ8, Q8, Q7, and 2024 SQ7 vehicles. The driver's seat side air bag may have been improperly mounted to the seatback frame. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 214, "Side Impact Protection."
- What it can cause
- An improperly mounted air bag may not restrain an occupant as intended, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and reinstall the air bag as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 17, 2024. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 69GA.
- 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 1,001 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 58% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2023 to 2024, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2023, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 45 times before this, most recently in March 2023 as 23V189000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 45 complaints with NHTSA, 6 of them before this campaign was filed.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 25V900000 (back over prevention), 24V251000 (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 December 20, 2023 as campaign 23V868000. 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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