Recall Monday: Volkwagen Recalls 340,000 Cars For Missing Part

VW's biggest problem is that too many coils over plug are failing unexpectedly. Thye should really start making their own ignition coils rather than buying them form el-cheapo suppliers. Other than that, the VW group makes some of the best vehicles on the planed and certainly vehicles that offer good value.

lol they produced 340,000 cars until they found out that a part was missing

They could removed it as a cost savings measure without checking the regulations impact. Shame on them either way for being sloppy.

My VW dealer showed me the official letter from VW today: I don't know who wrote the above article, but VW dealer communication talks about the need to meet U.S. regulations for aiming the the headlights. As far as I remember one type of adjustment needs to be enabled while another disabled. It's not like they forgot to put something in - I had a car that has rear fog lights that I wasn't legally allowed to use in the U.S.(according to owner's manual), but nobody ever recalled/disabled it. One could therefore claim that the manufacturer has a "missing part" to disable it, if it could not be disabled via programing. I don't think it had anything to do with saving cost - I agree with Toughy: no big deal!

houstoncutie2000 is right. I'm a cheapskate too but it does not pay to be penny wise and pound foolish.

Did anyone find the missing part yet? Do you think its safe?

Yes, my dealer had to install a part to disable horizontal aiming, which is allowed in other countries - it's safe (what could be not safe about being able to adjust your headlights horizontally, as long as it's correctly adjusted?), but U.S. laws won't allow it.

Lexus, should recall the IS-F to replace the hokey lookin race kit they designed.

They should recall houstoncutie's comment for not knowing what she is referring to...if a hard component is installed to prevent vertical adjustment, then you have to remove it to comply with our friends at the government =)! You can throw all the engineers at it, but you can't enable that adjustment without removing the part.

Please VW, build a plant in North America.

What do you expect? the vechicles was manufacture in Mexico?

Mexico is not world famous for quality. I once bought a Sony TV that was manufactured in Mexico and it did not compare in quality with my Japan-made Sony TV.

"Some of the headlamps may be missing rubber caps in the sockets of the low beam horizontal and vertical aiming screws"

Doesn't really sound that major, but I agree that they should move production of their cars for the North American market to North America. The quality seems to be poor compared to German built VW's.