Bugatti Chiron, Bugatti Divo, model year 2020. Filed by Bugatti and reported to NHTSA on 24 November 2020. 3 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Bugatti (Bugatti) is recalling certain 2020 DIVO and Chiron vehicles. The rear left-hand driveshaft may break.
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.
Bugatti's own number for this recall: BUGCR032. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V731 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 20V731 cover?
- Bugatti Chiron, Bugatti Divo, model year 2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Bugatti (Bugatti) is recalling certain 2020 DIVO and Chiron vehicles. The rear left-hand driveshaft may break.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A broken driveshaft could result in parts detaching and becoming a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Bugatti will notify owners, and dealers will replace rear left-hand driveshaft, free of charge. The recall began December 18, 2020. Owners may contact Bugatti customer service at 1-703-826-7545. Bugatti's number for this recall is BUGCR032.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Bugatti calls this recall BUGCR032, 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: “A broken driveshaft could result in parts detaching and becoming a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V731 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Bugatti |
| System at fault | Power Train:Driveline:Driveshaft |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 November 2020 |
| Model years | 2020-2020 |
| Vehicles named | BUGATTI CHIRON, BUGATTI DIVO |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A broken driveshaft could result in parts detaching and becoming a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Bugatti will notify owners, and dealers will replace rear left-hand driveshaft, free of charge. The recall began December 18, 2020. Owners may contact Bugatti customer service at 1-703-826-7545. Bugatti's number for this recall is BUGCR032.
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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 20V731, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v731/
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.
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Other Bugatti notices we hold
- 24V096: 2016-2023 Bugatti Chiron
- 23V388: one 2023 Chiron Super Sport
- 22V198: one 2018 Chiron
- 21V984: 2021-2022 Chiron Pur Sport
- 20V732: 2017-2020 Chiron, 2018-2020 Chiron Sport and 2020-2021 DIVO
- 18V420: 2018 Chiron
- 17V764: 2017-2018 Chiron
- 16V200: model year 2006-2010 Veyron
All 11 Bugatti campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
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 20V731 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9fa5856c - Consequence
dbb3c4c9 - Remedy
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