Another Upcoming VW Recall

"McMike" (mcmike)
11/04/2015 at 11:06 • Filed to: None

Here are the first two pages of a camshaft recall for 2015-2016 1.8T and 2.0 VW engines.

Not a VW camshaft

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! AG recalled nearly 92,000 newer cars in the U.S. for a faulty camshaft lobe that can shear off, reducing engine and braking power.

The German auto maker, separately grappling with an emissions-cheating scandal with diesel-powered cars, ordered dealers to stop selling cars with 2015-2016 model years that feature certain gasoline engines until the company comes up with a fix for them, according to a bulletin to dealers reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Volkswagen is still trying to determine a cause for the defect and a repair may not be completed until the end of March, according to a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The 91,867 models affected include the Jetta, Passat, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Golf/GTI and Golf Sportwagen. Overall, the company through the end of October sold roughly 294,600 vehicles in the U.S., including about 31,000 sport-utility vehicles.

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The lobe can shear off the camshaft. If this happens, the brake booster can eventually fail to receive needed vacuum supply.

That can result in reduced engine power called “limp mode” that can activate a warning light. The reduced engine power and increased effort needed for braking can increase the risk of a crash.

DISCUSSION (22)

yitznewton > McMike
11/04/2015 at 11:09

Crap. Glad I didn’t get that Mk7 base Golf I was looking at!

LongbowMkII > McMike
11/04/2015 at 11:15

wait, a stop sale on 1.8t/2.0 powered VWs....

I think that leaves the V6 passat as the only car VW can sell.

what about Audi camshafts?

this is juicy news.

BREADwagon > LongbowMkII
11/04/2015 at 11:23

This is crazy! I just hope VAG doesn’t drag Porsche with them on the way down...

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > McMike
11/04/2015 at 11:26

Wait. What all cars are they still able to sell after this?

DasWauto > McMike
11/04/2015 at 11:27

Kinja'd!!!

... dangit. So much for not being caught up in VW’s problems so far.

Brickman > McMike
11/04/2015 at 11:29

They might as well go back to making the Type 1 Beetle :P

yitznewton > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
11/04/2015 at 11:30

Well, there’s the base Jetta with the NA 2.0... do they still make that?

PS9 > McMike
11/04/2015 at 11:30

R.I.P. VAG

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > yitznewton
11/04/2015 at 11:31

I don’t even know if they make that.

DasWauto > yitznewton
11/04/2015 at 11:36

Nope, replaced by a 1.4TSI this year, finally.

Seat Safety Switch > McMike
11/04/2015 at 11:36

Shades of the Mini vacuum pump problems there.

It’s admirable of VW to look at an engine that already had cam follower issues causing the high pressure fuel pump to die, and then say “yeah we should put vacuum-assisted power brakes on this bitch too.”

DrJohannVegas > McMike
11/04/2015 at 12:02

> Looks outside at Golf
> Thinks of “silly” narrow angle V6 under hood of car
> Thinks of years of reliable service
> Smiles warmly
> car bursts spontaneously into flames

RallyWrench > McMike
11/04/2015 at 12:38

So many problems at once. They’re now warrantying TDI injection pumps to 10 years and 120k, and the 2.0L turbo gas engines have a similar extended warranty for oil consumption for which they’re replacing the rings. Those engines destroy their camshafts too, when the high pressure fuel pump follower destroys its lobe on the cam.