2009 Volkswagen Passat defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2009 Volkswagen Passat. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

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  Preliminary Evaluation PE09022 · opened May 4, 2009 · closed Jul 9, 2009

  On may 4, 2009, the office of defects investigations (odi) opened preliminary evaluation pe09-022 to investigate an owner complaint (odi no. 10260517) alleging contact between the atf cooling line and the radiator fan blades.the complaint indicated that the contact resulted in rapid atf fluid loss which rendered the ve…