AIR BAGS: AIR BAG/RESTRAINT CONTROL MODULE
Deactivated air bags increases the risk of injury. Inadvertent deployment of the air bags increase the risk of a crash.
4 safety recall campaigns, 106 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Deactivated air bags increases the risk of injury. Inadvertent deployment of the air bags increase the risk of a crash.
If the vehicles do not meet all regulatory requirements, there could be an increased risk of a crash, fire, or injury.
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of a seat-mounted air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
If the labels have incorrect weight and loading information, the operator may overload the vehicle which could cause vehicle instability, increasing the risk of a crash.
Two 2015 VOLKSWAGEN TIGUANs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.