Recall · 26V590000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 3 models over steering
208,724
Vehicles covered
3
Models
6
Model years
September 11, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
STEERING
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2018 Tiguan, 2018-2019 Atlas, and 2019-2021 Audi Q3 vehicles. One of the bolts that attaches the steering rack to the subframe may corrode and break. If this happens, the steering rack housing can break.
- What it can cause
- A broken steering rack housing can result in a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the right-side steering rack mounting bolt, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed November 10, 2026. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's numbers for this recall are 48LG and 48VT. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on September 16, 2026.
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 208,724 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 95% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 8 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the steering 10 times before this, most recently in August 2025 as 25V526000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,303 complaints with NHTSA, 1,275 of them before this campaign was filed. 82 of those name the steering, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2017, 8 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 18 other recalls published here, the newest being: 23V671000 (air bags), 23V215000 (air bags), 22V815000 (tires), 22V673000 (fuel system, gasoline).
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 September 11, 2026 as campaign 26V590000. 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 2026-09-11.
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