Coda Coda, model year 2012. Filed by CODA Automotive and reported to NHTSA on 30 May 2013. 117 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says CODA Automotive (CODA) is recalling certain model year 2012 CODA vehicles. The side curtain airbags may have been improperly rolled during production which could cause the airbag to not deploy as intended.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, 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.
Coda's own number for this recall: R84002. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 13V229 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 13V229 cover?
- Coda Coda, model year 2012.
- What is wrong with them?
- CODA Automotive (CODA) is recalling certain model year 2012 CODA vehicles. The side curtain airbags may have been improperly rolled during production which could cause the airbag to not deploy as intended.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- In the event of a crash necessitating side curtain airbag deployment, the side curtain airbags may fail to deploy as intended, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. This recall supersedes a previous recall conducted by CODA, 12V-409. All owners, including owners involved in the previous campaign, will be notified and instructed to go to CODA dealers to have both side curtain airbags replaced free of charge. The safety recall began on June 11, 2013.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Coda calls this recall R84002, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “In the event of a crash necessitating side curtain airbag deployment, the side curtain airbags may fail to deploy as intended, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 13V229 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | CODA Automotive |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Side/Window |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 May 2013 |
| Model years | 2012-2012 |
| Vehicles named | CODA CODA |
What the notice says today
The consequence
In the event of a crash necessitating side curtain airbag deployment, the side curtain airbags may fail to deploy as intended, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
This recall supersedes a previous recall conducted by CODA, 12V-409. All owners, including owners involved in the previous campaign, will be notified and instructed to go to CODA dealers to have both side curtain airbags replaced free of charge. The safety recall began on June 11, 2013. Owners should contact their dealer for more information. CODA Automotive's recall campaign number is R84002.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 13V229, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/13v229/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 13V229 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
97a93551 - Consequence
d50bfd43 - Remedy
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