{"id":584324,"date":"2026-04-05T18:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584324\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:45:13","slug":"volkswagen-vehicles-recalled-in-canada-for-safety-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584324\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen vehicles recalled in Canada for &#8216;safety risk&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Transport Canada has issued a recall for more than 8,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwapps.tc.gc.ca\/Saf-Sec-Sur\/7\/VRDB-BDRV\/search-recherche\/detail.aspx?lang=eng&amp;rn=2026140\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volkswagen vehicles<\/a> in Canada due to a \u201csafety risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The recall was triggered due to a software problem that can cause the instrument cluster not to display when the vehicle is started, leading to an increased risk of crashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAs a result, you may not be able to see certain information about the vehicle, including the speedometer, gear selection indicators, warning lights and malfunction tell-tales,\u201d the recall alert first posted on March 25 and later updated on April 2, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vehicles affected by the recall include the following models:<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen Jetta, model year 2025Volkswagen Taos, model year 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Impacted customers will be notified by the carmaker by mail to bring their vehicle to a dealership to update the software, the notice said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe dealer will replace the instrument cluster, as necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier in March, more than 13,000 vehicles from the same automaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/business\/autos\/article\/risk-of-fire-transport-canada-announces-recall-for-more-than-13000-volkswagen-vehicles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were recalled<\/a> for a \u201crisk of fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The recall said the transmission ground wire on certain vehicles may not have been connected during production, causing the wiring or other parts near it to overheat, causing a risk of fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transport Canada has issued a recall for more than 8,000 Volkswagen vehicles in Canada due to a \u201csafety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-584324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}