Volkswagen and its sports car subsidiary Audi are recalling almost one million passenger cars in Germany after a screw could break and potentially cause a loss of steering, according to the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) on Friday.
The steering assembly must therefore be fitted with a “more corrosion-resistant screw.” A Volkswagen spokesperson said that vehicles “can continue to be driven” until an appointment at a workshop and that there was “no immediate danger.”
According to the KBA, the affected Volkswagen models are the Tiguan, Touran, Golf, Golf Variant and Caddy, manufactured between September 24, 2013, and July 1, 2024. In Germany, the recall potentially affects 895,832 Volkswagen vehicles. Audi is also affected. The Audi Q3, manufactured between October 31, 2017, and May 23, 2024, is included in the recall. In Germany, this concerns a potential 58,555 vehicles. Worldwide, the KBA estimates that the problem could affect 2.8 million Volkswagen and Audi passenger cars.
The owners of the affected vehicles will now be contacted by letter, the Volkswagen spokesperson announced. Volkswagen requires the registration data from the KBA to send out the notices. It will take “several days or weeks” for every affected owner to receive a letter. Once they receive it, “they contact their Volkswagen partner and make an appointment.”
The spokesperson could not say where or when the problem was first discovered. He suspected that it may have been identified in a country where “more salt is used on the roads”, as the risk of corrosion underneath the vehicle is higher there.
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