VOLKSWAGEN

The risk

The product poses a risk of fire as transition resistance may be unacceptably high in the earth connection of the heating element of the additional air heater. This may cause overheating in this cable's connection area, damage resulting from excessive temperatures and, in the worst case scenario, it could set the vehicle on fire.

Product: There are 4 885 vehicles affected on the Spanish market, manufactured between 8 January 2007 and 9 January 2008 with the following chassis numbers:WVW ___ 1K _ 7 M 099441 - 202689WVW ___ 1K _ 8 M 000025 - 1119033VW ___ 1K _ 7 M 101615 - 2026853VW ___ 1K _ 8 M 000033 - 105765WVW ___ 1K _ 7 M 300066 – 307813WVW ___ 1K _ 8 M 300001 – 3604143VW ___ 1K _ 7 M 300151 – 3031163VW ___ 1K _ 8 M 300043 – 321362

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other Category of measure(s): Voluntary corrective action taken by the importer.Date of entry into force: Unknown

Other fire alerts in 2008

34 of the 167 motor vehicle alerts published in 2008 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2008

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2008

More Volkswagen alerts

217 EU Safety Gate alerts for Volkswagen since 2007; the most were issued in 2021 (27).

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