Volkswagen Passat. Published by Transport Canada as 2009087 on 19 March 2009. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the right front seatbelt buckle wiring harness may have been incorrectly routed during vehicle assembly. As such, the wires could become damaged when the seat is moved fully up and down or fore and aft. If this occurs, the airbag control module will switch to a fallback algorithm and deactivate …
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Volkswagen PASSAT in the other registers
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2009087
- Recall date
- 19 March 2009
- Make
- Volkswagen
- Models
- Passat
- Model years
- 2009
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 409
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the right front seatbelt buckle wiring harness may have been incorrectly routed during vehicle assembly. As such, the wires could become damaged when the seat is moved fully up and down or fore and aft. If this occurs, the airbag control module will switch to a fallback algorithm and deactivate the passenger's frontal airbag. Failure of the passenger frontal airbag to deploy during a vehicle crash could increase the risk of personal injuries or death to the seat occupant. Correction: Dealers will inspect and, if necessary, reroute the right front seatbelt wiring harness.
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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.
- 2009141 · 14 May 2009 · Jetta · Structure
- 2009202 · 7 July 2009 · Touareg · Other
- 2009208 · 10 July 2009 · Routan · Other
- 2009249 · 20 August 2009 · Eos, A3, Jetta · Powertrain
- 2008398 · 3 November 2008 · Passat · Steering
- 2008183 · 23 May 2008 · Passat · Engine
- 2008127 · 16 April 2008 · Beetle · Airbag
- 2008119 · 9 April 2008 · Passat · Fuel System
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2009055 · 23 February 2009 · Cx-9 · Seats And Restraints
- 2009027 · 29 January 2009 · Yaris · Seats And Restraints
- 2009021 · 22 January 2009 · Continental Flying Spur Speed, Continental Flying Spur · Seats And Restraints
- 2008459 · 8 January 2009 · Safety 1st, Graco, Evenflo · Seats And Restraints
- 2009201 · 7 July 2009 · G5 School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2009222 · 20 July 2009 · Mbii Commercial Bus · Seats And Restraints
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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 368 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2009.
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