Recall · 25V227000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 2 models over air bags
3,773
Vehicles covered
2
Models
4
Model years
April 15, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION:FRONT PASSENGER
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2022-2023 RS E-TRON GT and E-TRON GT 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 seat cushion, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 15, 2025. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 74HC.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 888-327-4236 (TTY 888-275-9171) 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| AudiE-Tron GT | 2022 to 2023 | 2023 |
| AudiRS E-Tron GT | 2022 to 2023 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 3,773 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 72% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 47 times before this, most recently in April 2024 as 24V251000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 18 complaints with NHTSA, 11 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2022, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 13 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V900000 (back over prevention), 24V726000 (electrical system), 24V465000 (service brakes, air), 24V229000 (electrical system).
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 April 15, 2025 as campaign 25V227000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2025-04-15.
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