Received the recall letter on airbag from vw. dealership confirmed that a recall parts not available from the manufacturer. received the confirmation letter from them and attached it. i hope this is sufficient evidence to ship my car to korea.
Purchased 05/19/2017. horn and dashboard lights did not work in approximately 12/2017. was repaired and told was a coil problem. then on 04/12/18 it suddenly flashed all the dashboard and steering wheel lights in the middle of my driving and suddenly died on me when i turned into my driveway and the steering wheel got locked. luckily happened near my driveway!! had to be towed and told they fixed the battery problem. the next day it acted up again whereby the radio kept shutting off and coming back on! before i could take it in again i was involved in accident on 04/16/18 and the airbags did not deploy causing my head to whip every which way!!
Nothing happened, simply i received the letter from volkswagen and an important information about compliance recall 69v2 - driver airbag. this notice was sent to me in accordance with the national traffic and motor vehicle safety act. volkswagen has decided that certain 2017-2018 model year volkswagen tiguan limited vehicles fail to conform to federal motor vehicle safety standard (fmvss) no. 208 "occupant crash protection." their records show that i am the owner of a vehicle affected by this action.
Tl* the contact owns a 2017 volkswagen tiguan. the contact stated that while driving at 45 mph, the contact hit a pot hole, lost control of the steering wheel and crashed into a tree. all airbags deployed accept the front driver and passenger side. the contact sustained head chest, bruising injuries. his wife who was seated in the passenger seat sustained injuries from the seatbelt which caused bruising around her neck and chest. however, 40 days later the contact wife passed away from hitting the dashboard with her head, seatbelt pensioner caused by septic shock. medical attention was contacted which the contacts wife was hospitalized for couple of days. a police report was made and towed the vehicle to a lot. damages to the front end were repairable. all state was contacted about the issue and has started a claim. the manufacturer was made ware of the failure and informed the contact to bring the vehicle in for a diagnose test. no dealer was contacted. the contact mentioned nhtsa campaign number: 16v955000 (seat belts, airbags) as a possible cause to the failure which was not included in the vin. the failure mileage was approximately 3,834.