Volkswagen Gti. Published by Transport Canada as 1987073 on 14 July 1987. System: Suspension.
What the notice says On vehicles with alloy wheels, the left front wheel bolts may be improperly torqued. improperly torqued wheel bolts may come loose and possibly separate from the vehicle resulting in wheel loss and possible vehicle crash without prior warning. correction: left front wheel bolts will be retorqued to specification.
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Volkswagen GTI in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Volkswagen GTI is named on 14 American notices and 10 Japanese. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The Japanese register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1987073
- Recall date
- 14 July 1987
- Make
- Volkswagen
- Models
- GTI
- Model years
- 1987
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Suspension
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 550
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
ON VEHICLES WITH ALLOY WHEELS, THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL BOLTS MAY BE IMPROPERLY TORQUED. IMPROPERLY TORQUED WHEEL BOLTS MAY COME LOOSE AND POSSIBLY SEPARATE FROM THE VEHICLE RESULTING IN WHEEL LOSS AND POSSIBLE VEHICLE CRASH WITHOUT PRIOR WARNING. CORRECTION: LEFT FRONT WHEEL BOLTS WILL BE RETORQUED TO SPECIFICATION.
Transport Canada recorded this notice in capitals, as its system did for many years. It is reproduced here exactly as published.
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 1987073.
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.
- 1987042 · 29 April 1987 · Vanagon · Fuel System
- 1987043 · 29 April 1987 · Vanagon · Fuel System
- 1987044 · 29 April 1987 · Cabriolet, Scirocco, Jetta · Fuel System
- 1987117 · 2 November 1987 · Vanagon · Powertrain
- 1987020 · 16 February 1987 · Rabbit, Jetta, Cabriolet · Emissions
- 1988062 · 27 April 1988 · Vanagon · Fuel System
- 1988127 · 8 September 1988 · Jetta · Brakes
- 1988161 · 1 December 1988 · Fox · Steering
The same system: Suspension
746 notices in this register name Suspension. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1987077 · 31 July 1987 · Conventional · Suspension
- 1987055 · 28 May 1987 · Conventional · Suspension
- 1987047 · 6 May 1987 · Tempo, Escort · Suspension
- 1987107 · 9 October 1987 · C.o.e., Conventional · Suspension
- 1987122 · 5 November 1987 · Truck · Suspension
- 1987123 · 5 November 1987 · Truck · Suspension
Reading this against the source
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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 notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Volkswagen GTI, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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 142 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1987.
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