EU alert · Safety Gate Serious risk Motor vehicles
Passenger car VW “Polo” — risk: injuries
Published in the Safety Gate weekly report: · Ref. A12/0479/19
Summary
On vehicles with a rear drum brake, the operational wear of the brake lining and use-related settlement of the drum brake may result in a loss of pre-tension on the parking brake cables and thus on the parking brake lever adjustment nut. As a consequence, the setting position for the adjustment nut could change when the parking brake is applied, thus extending the range of parking brake lever travel. This could…
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Product
Passenger car — VW
- Brand
- VW
- Name / model
- Polo · Type-approval number: e1*2007/46*1783*; Type: AW
- Category
- Motor vehicles
- Passenger car. Company recall code: 46H9
- Production dates: The vehicles in question were produced from 29.10.2016 until 17.10.2018 at the plant in Spain, until 21.11.2018 at the plant in South Africa and until 1.8.2018 at the plant in Algeria.
What is the risk?
- On vehicles with a rear drum brake, the operational wear of the brake lining and use-related settlement of the drum brake may result in a loss of pre-tension on the parking brake cables and thus on the parking brake lever adjustment nut. As a consequence, the setting position for the adjustment nut could change when the parking brake is applied, thus extending the range of parking brake lever travel. This could result in the vehicle not being properly secured by the parking brake.
Measures taken
- Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): ManufacturerCategory of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users
- Date of entry into force: Unknown
Source: Safety Gate — European Commission
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