Bugatti Chiron, model year 2018. Filed by Bugatti and reported to NHTSA on 28 March 2022. 1 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Bugatti is recalling one 2018 Chiron vehicle. One of the screws that fastens the front frame support may be loose.
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: BUGCR027. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V198 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 22V198 cover?
- Bugatti Chiron, model year 2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Bugatti is recalling one 2018 Chiron vehicle. One of the screws that fastens the front frame support may be loose.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loose frame support may reduce the vehicle's structural protection in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Bugatti recommends the car not be driven until the screws have been correctly tightened. A dealer will inspect the screws to the front frame support and tighten them as necessary, free of charge. The affected vehicle was repaired March 31, 2022.
- 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 BUGCR027, 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 loose frame support may reduce the vehicle's structural protection in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V198 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Bugatti |
| System at fault | Structure:Frame And Members |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 March 2022 |
| Model years | 2018-2018 |
| Vehicles named | BUGATTI CHIRON |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The consequence
A loose frame support may reduce the vehicle's structural protection in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Bugatti recommends the car not be driven until the screws have been correctly tightened. A dealer will inspect the screws to the front frame support and tighten them as necessary, free of charge. The affected vehicle was repaired March 31, 2022. Owners may contact Bugatti customer service at 1-703-826-7545. Bugatti's number for this recall is BUGCR027.
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 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. 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 22V198, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v198/
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.
Other Bugatti notices we hold
- 24V096: 2016-2023 Bugatti Chiron
- 23V388: one 2023 Chiron Super Sport
- 21V984: 2021-2022 Chiron Pur Sport
- 20V732: 2017-2020 Chiron, 2018-2020 Chiron Sport and 2020-2021 DIVO
- 20V731: 2020 DIVO and Chiron
- 18V420: 2018 Chiron
- 17V764: 2017-2018 Chiron
- 16V200: model year 2006-2010 Veyron
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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 22V198 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
68d36f04 - Consequence
1156157d - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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