23V215000
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION:FRONT PASSENGER
A deactivated passenger air bag increases the risk of injury during a crash.
2020 VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS
4 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations, 51 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns4
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints51
Complaints citing a crash0
Complaints citing a fire0
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 4 of 4
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
- 11ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 7AIR BAGS
- 5UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 5STEERING
- 4SERVICE BRAKES
- 4FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
- 3ENGINE
- 2POWER TRAIN
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2020 VOLKSWAGEN ATLASs 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.