Volkswagen Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport. Published by Transport Canada as 2022489 on 31 August 2022. System: Structure.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the trailer hitch bolts may not have been properly tightened. As a result, the bolts could loosen, and the hitch could detach from the vehicle while towing a trailer.
Safety Risk:
A trailer hitch that detaches from a vehicle could create a risk of a crash.
Corrective Actions: …
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.
Transport Canada carries this recall as 2022489, dated 31 August 2022. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 22V657, dated 31 August 2022. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, 66N8.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2022489 | 22V657 |
| Dated | 31 August 2022 | 31 August 2022 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
| Make | Volkswagen | |
Both registers carry the same date for this defect.
These are the dates each register records against its own notice. They are separate administrative acts in two countries, recorded by two authorities under two sets of rules, and this page does not claim that one caused the other or that owners in either country were contacted on those days. What it shows is that the same manufacturer campaign reached the two registers on different dates.
Read the American notice 22V657, including every earlier version of its wording this site holds. The Canadian register explains why the manufacturer code is published there and what that makes possible. Canada and America sets every matched pair side by side.
Volkswagen ATLAS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Volkswagen ATLAS is named on 43 American notices and 3 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2022489
- Recall date
- 31 August 2022
- Make
- Volkswagen
- Models
- Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport
- Model years
- 2022
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 356
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the trailer hitch bolts may not have been properly tightened. As a result, the bolts could loosen, and the hitch could detach from the vehicle while towing a trailer.Safety Risk:
A trailer hitch that detaches from a vehicle could create a risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
Volkswagen will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealership to tighten the trailer hitch bolts.
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 2022489.
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.
- 2022517 · 15 September 2022 · Taos · Engine
- 2022533 · 21 September 2022 · Golf R, GTI · Engine
- 2022403 · 27 July 2022 · Golf, TT, A3 · Airbag
- 2022402 · 27 July 2022 · Golf R, GTI · Visual System
- 2022382 · 20 July 2022 · Atlas Cross Sport, Arteon, Atlas · Visual System
- 2022576 · 7 October 2022 · Q5, Atlas Cross Sport, Atlas · Engine
- 2022612 · 26 October 2022 · Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport · Suspension
- 2022630 · 2 November 2022 · A3, Golf R, Q4 E-Tron · Visual System
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.
- 2022483 · 29 August 2022 · 49x, 47x · Structure
- 2022477 · 25 August 2022 · Spark, Spark Ev · Structure
- 2022473 · 19 August 2022 · DT Series · Structure
- 2022461 · 12 August 2022 · F-150 · Structure
- 2022455 · 3 August 2022 · Q5, SQ5 · Structure
- 2022499 · 7 September 2022 · Impression · Structure
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 Atlas Cross Sport, 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 637 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2022.
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