Vinfast Vf8, model years 2022 to 2024. Filed by VinFast Auto, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 24 May 2024. 225 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says VinFast Auto, LLC (VinFast) is recalling certain 2022-2024 VF8 vehicles. Inactive ignitors may have been installed in the air bags.
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.
Vinfast's own number for this recall: VPAC-291. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V369 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 24V369 cover?
- Vinfast VF8, model years 2022-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- VinFast Auto, LLC (VinFast) is recalling certain 2022-2024 VF8 vehicles. Inactive ignitors may have been installed in the air bags.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Inactive ignitors can prevent the air bags from deploying, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. VinFast will replace the air bags, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 21, 2024. Owners may contact VinFast customer service at 1-833-503-0600. VinFast's number for this recall is VPAC-291.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Vinfast calls this recall VPAC-291, 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: “Inactive ignitors can prevent the air bags from deploying, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V369 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | VinFast Auto, LLC |
| System at fault | Air Bags |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 May 2024 |
| Model years | 2022-2024 |
| Vehicles named | VINFAST VF8 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Inactive ignitors can prevent the air bags from deploying, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
VinFast will replace the air bags, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 21, 2024. Owners may contact VinFast customer service at 1-833-503-0600. VinFast's number for this recall is VPAC-291.
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.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2024293, recorded 24 May 2024 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on VPAC291, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 24V369, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v369/
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 Vinfast notices we hold
All 4 Vinfast 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 24V369 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
3292db35 - Consequence
dbfd9823 - 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.
The wording we hold for 24V369 · how the whole register is watched
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