Passenger car
VW · Touareg Hybrid
Motor vehiclesFire
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Notifying country
- Germany
- Counterfeit
- No
Requirements breached
Water infiltration in the battery compartment (spare wheel recess) may cause a short circuit between the terminals of the high-voltage battery cells resulting in thermal destruction of the battery.
Measures taken
- Recall of the product from end users Voluntary measuresTaken by: Manufacturer
Product
- Description
- Passenger car
- Brand
- Model / type
- Batch
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- A12/0293/16 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2016-010
- Published
- 3 March 2016
- Modified
- 30 July 2021
- Corrigendum
- Notification A12/1704/15 in Web Report 51-2015 has been modified further to additional information on the risk (NEW number: A11/0025/16).
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