Volkswagen Golf A7, Golf A7 Variant, Tiguan, Jetta A7, Golf A7 TDI

The risk

Defective material may be used in the rear suspension helical springs. As a result, the springs could break, impairing the driving stability and increasing the risk of an accident. The product does not comply with the requirements laid down in the Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles

Product: Vehicles manufactured for the American market.

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

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Importer Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: 13/05/2019

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Volkswagen Jetta
• Volkswagen Tiguan

Other injuries alerts in 2021

427 of the 549 motor vehicle alerts published in 2021 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2021

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2021

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Volkswagen Jetta

More Volkswagen alerts

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

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