Recall · 24V834000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 3 models over air bags
248,330
Vehicles covered
3
Models
12
Model years
October 30, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2017-2019 Beetle, Beetle Convertible, 2012-2014 Passat, 2017 Passat Wagon, and 2006-2007 Passat Sedan vehicles. The driver's side frontal air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling.
- What it can cause
- An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the driver's side front air bag module, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 4, 2024. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's numbers for this recall are 69EG, 69GQ, and 69E6.
- 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 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 248,330 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 2006 to 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 18 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 32 times before this, most recently in August 2024 as 24V643000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 9 of the 12 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,818 complaints with NHTSA, 2,636 of them before this campaign was filed. 1,326 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 October 2005, 19 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 21V321000 (unknown or other), 20V561000 (unknown or other).
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 October 30, 2024 as campaign 24V834000. 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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