Recall · 24V464000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 2 models over air bags
271,330
Vehicles covered
2
Models
9
Model years
June 20, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION:FRONT PASSENGER
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2021-2024 Atlas and 2020-2024 Atlas Cross Sport vehicles. The passenger occupant detection system (PODS) may experience a fault in the wiring and deactivate the front passenger air bag when the seat is occupied.
- What it can cause
- A deactivated passenger air bag increases the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the PODS sensor mat and wiring harness, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on September 30, 2024. Owner notification letters will be mailed in phases, on October 18, 2024, December 10, 2024, December 20, 2024, and January 17, 2025. Owners may contact Volkswagen's customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 69PZ.
- 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 271,330 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 2020 to 2024, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 30 times before this, most recently in October 2023 as 23V671000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,383 complaints with NHTSA, 527 of them before this campaign was filed. 203 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2020, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 27 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V473000 (back over prevention), 25V434000 (service brakes), 25V334000 (back over prevention), 25V100000 (engine).
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 June 20, 2024 as campaign 24V464000. 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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