STEERING
A damaged steering knuckle can fail, causing a loss of steering, thereby increasing the risk of a crash.
14 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 276 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
1 campaign covering the 2021 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.
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.
A damaged steering knuckle can fail, causing a loss of steering, thereby increasing the risk of a crash.
A deactivated passenger air bag increases the risk of injury during a crash.
An undetected sudden loss of pressure in all four tires increases the risk of a crash.
A rearview camera that does not display an image reduces the driver's rear view, increasing the risk of a crash.
Long fuel injectors with missing filters may leak fuel, increasing the risk of a fire.
A delayed air bag deployment can increase the risk of injury.
Two 2021 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.