Level: Serious risk
Type: Consumer products
Ref.: A12/1312/16
Notifying country: Germany
Country of origin: Germany
Counterfeit:
Risk type: Injuries
Product: Passenger car
Product name: Caddy, Passat, Touran
Product description: Passenger car powered by compressed natural gas.
Brand: VW
Category: Motor vehicles
Type/number of model: EC type-approval number: e1*2001/116*0252*
Type: 2K (Caddy)
, EC type-approval number: e1*2001/116*0468*
Type: 3CC (Passat)
, EC type-approval number: e1*2007/46*0217*
Type: 2 KN (Caddy)
, EC type-approval number: e1*2007/46*0357*
Type: 1T (Touran)
Batch number/Barcode: EcoFuel vehicles with engine code BSX or CDGA. The vehicles affected were produced between 1 September 2005 and 31 May 2010.
OECD Portal Category: 77000000 - Automotive
Risk: Corrosion on the front gas tank may reduce the thickness of the gas tank wall. Insufficient thickness of the tank wall poses the risk that the gas tank may burst.
Measures adopted by notifying country: Measures taken by economic operators: Recall of the product from end users (By: Manufacturer)
Products were found and measures were taken also in:: Poland, Sweden