Volkswagen recalls 2009 Tiguan, 2008 Passat and Wagon for "Engine Surge"

June 12, 2008

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Volkswagen recalls 2009 Tiguan, 2008 Passat and Wagon for "Engine Surge"

Volkswagen recalls 2009 Tiguan, 2008 Passat and Wagon for “Engine Surge”

Posted Jun 11th 2008 1:30PM by Chris Shunk
Filed under: Government/Legal, Recalls/TSBs, Crossovers/CUVs, Volkswagen

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Volkswagen is recalling 4,000 2008 Passats and 2009 Tiguans for an “engine surging” issue. The difficulty is an engine curb power that haw not curb engine indolent when the expose conditioning is overturned on. In thin cases, the ECM crapper causing an unheralded move in engine RPM, which could apparently advance to an accident. NHTSA has conversant VW that since the request is a land concern, dealers cannot delude the vehicles until the difficulty has been fixed. Owners of potentially strained vehicles are existence told not to control the expose conditioning until a VW moneyman has serviced the ECM, which is inferior than alarming programme considering it’s June and temperatures are around 90 degrees in some parts of the country. While it’s disheartening that the sort newborn Tiguan is already effort its prototypal recall, at small the difficulty was unconcealed primeval and there’s a mend pronto available.

Gallery: 2008 Volkswagen Tiguan

[Source: Inside Line]