2005 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG

1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations, 106 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.

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The record

Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints106
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 1 of 1

17V5830002017-09-20

FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP

A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.

What owners report most

  • 16FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
  • 14ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
  • 7AIR BAGS
  • 6SEAT BELTS
  • 6TIRES
  • 5POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
  • 4POWER TRAIN
  • 4FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE

This page is about a model, not a car

Two 2005 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREGs 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.

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