Injuries

Passenger cars – Steering control unit

Volkswagen

Case number: 1389/08
Category: Motor vehicles
Type / Model: Passenger cars, models Passat (type 3C) and Passat CC (type 3CC) (Recall Campaign 48J1).
Audience: Consumer
Notifying country: 🇬🇷 Greece
Country of origin: 🇩🇪 Germany
Published: 2008-12-05

⚠️ Risk

The product poses a risk of injuries because the steering may malfunction during parking due to a fault in a condenser in the steering control unit.A fault in condensers in the steering control unit can affect steering movements.

Measures

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Voluntary corrective actions taken by the importer.Date of entry into force: Unknown

The recall concerns vehicles produced between 15 August 2008 and 23 September 2008 with the following chassis number ranges: WVW ___3C _ 9 E 023951 to 057828 WVW ___ 3C _ 9 E 515773 to 523742 XW8 ___ 3C _ 9 G 004211 to 004323 WVW ___ 3C _ 9 P 026694 to 031381.