Volkswagen Vanagon. Published by Transport Canada as 1985125 on 18 November 1985. System: Structure.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the door latch of the passenger side sliding door may be damaged if excessive force is used for closing the door. Should this happen, the door lock mechanism will not properly engage and could disengage if the vehicle is driven over bumpy roads.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1985125
- Recall date
- 18 November 1985
- Make
- Volkswagen
- Models
- Vanagon
- Model years
- 1985
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,211
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the door latch of the passenger side sliding door may be damaged if excessive force is used for closing the door. Should this happen, the door lock mechanism will not properly engage and could disengage if the vehicle is driven over bumpy roads.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1985125.
Volkswagen elsewhere in this register
Volkswagen is named on 284 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1985089 · 29 July 1985 · Jetta, Scirocco, Cabriolet · Brakes
- 1985087 · 19 July 1985 · Cabriolet, Scirocco · Not Entered
- 1985033 · 3 April 1985 · Golf · Not Entered
- 1986022 · 18 February 1986 · Golf · Other
- 1984152 · 28 November 1984 · Scirocco, Cabriolet · Not Entered
- 1984083 · 12 July 1984 · Vanagon · Structure
- 1984004 · 17 January 1984 · Fox, Dasher, Scirocco · Fuel System
- 1987020 · 16 February 1987 · Rabbit, Jetta, Cabriolet · Emissions
The same system: Structure
800 notices in this register name Structure. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1985140 · 4 December 1985 · RS, RL · Structure
- 1985103 · 13 September 1985 · RW, RWS, RWL · Structure
- 1986010 · 22 January 1986 · MH · Structure
- 1986011 · 22 January 1986 · R, Rd · Structure
- 1986012 · 22 January 1986 · Truck · Structure
- 1986016 · 4 February 1986 · Semi-Trailer · Structure
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Volkswagen: 284 in the register, and 141 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1985.
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