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Volkswagen Atlas, Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport, model year 2024. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 23 August 2023. 2,018 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2024 Atlas PA2 and Atlas Cross Sport PA vehicles. The engine connecting rod bearings may become damaged, which can result in engine failure.

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.

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Volkswagen's own number for this recall: 13I6. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V593 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 23V593 cover?
Volkswagen Atlas, Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport, model year 2024.
What is wrong with them?
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2024 Atlas PA2 and Atlas Cross Sport PA vehicles. The engine connecting rod bearings may become damaged, which can result in engine failure.
What can happen if it is not put right?
A damaged engine can result in engine failure and a stall, increasing the risk of a crash. In addition, engine failure may cause an oil leak which can increase the risk of a fire.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and, if necessary, replace the engine, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 28, 2023. Owners may contact Volkswagen's customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 13i6.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Volkswagen calls this recall 13I6, 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 damaged engine can result in engine failure and a stall, increasing the risk of a crash. In addition, engine failure may cause an oil leak which can increase the risk of a fire.”

2,018vehicles potentially
affected
2models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 23 August 2023owners told 28 September 2023today
The defect reached the regulator on 23 August 2023. Owners were written to 36 days later, on 28 September 2023. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign23V593
Filed byVolkswagen Group of America, Inc.
System at faultEngine And Engine Cooling:Engine:Hard Parts Internal/Mechanical
Reported to NHTSA23 August 2023
Model years2024-2024
Vehicles namedVOLKSWAGEN ATLAS, VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS CROSS SPORT

What the notice says today

The consequence

A damaged engine can result in engine failure and a stall, increasing the risk of a crash. In addition, engine failure may cause an oil leak which can increase the risk of a fire.

The remedy

Dealers will inspect and, if necessary, replace the engine, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 28, 2023. Owners may contact Volkswagen's customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 13i6.

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 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

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CarsMultiverse, recall 23V593, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v593/

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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