Filed under: Minivans/MPVs, Recalls/TSBs, Safety, Volkswagen

In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, one of the characters decries the need for a set of detailed instructions on a packet of toothpicks. Volkswagen might feel the same way now that 18,500 of its 2009 Routan minivans are being recalled because their owner's manuals don't include a required warning not to put items on or near the airbag. In the words of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:

The owner's manual was printed without the required information explaining that no objects should be placed over the or near the airbag on the instrument panel. Any such objects could cause injury to the vehicle's occupants in the event of a crash severe enough to cause the airbag to inflate.

VW is sending dealers an insert to be placed in effected Routan manuals. If you don't trust yourself to handle the insert, you can take your Routan to the dealer and they'll be happy to assist. We have to ask: wouldn't a simple letter in the mail with insert suffice?

[Source: NHTSA]

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(07-07-2009 04:40 PM)Redline Wrote:  We have to ask: wouldn't a simple letter in the mail with insert suffice?

I would have to say so

(07-07-2009 05:09 PM)6MTUA5 Wrote:  

(07-07-2009 04:40 PM)Redline Wrote:  We have to ask: wouldn't a simple letter in the mail with insert suffice?

I would have to say so

That is crazy. If some people were like me, It wont see the stealership in a while to even put that insert in.