20V712000
STEERING
A damaged steering knuckle can fail, causing a loss of steering, thereby increasing the risk of a crash.
2020 VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS CROSS SPORT
11 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation, 157 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
1 campaign covering the 2020 VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS CROSS SPORT carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns11
Park it1stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints157
Complaints citing a crash4
Complaints citing a fire1
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 6 of 11
24V464000
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION:FRONT PASSENGER
A deactivated passenger air bag increases the risk of injury during a crash.
23V215000
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION:FRONT PASSENGER
A deactivated passenger air bag increases the risk of injury during a crash.
22V815000
TIRES:PRESSURE MONITORING AND REGULATING SYSTEMS
An undetected sudden loss of pressure in all four tires increases the risk of a crash.
22V152000
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW
A delayed air bag deployment can increase the risk of injury.
22V086000
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
Without the reduced GVWR label, the vehicle could be overloaded, leading to a loss of control and increasing the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 32ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 22UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 18SERVICE BRAKES
- 18AIR BAGS
- 13FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
- 9ENGINE
- 7STEERING
- 6VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2020 VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS CROSS SPORTs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.