{"id":5832,"date":"2014-04-25T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T20:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2014-04-28T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T20:37:00","slug":"2014-volkswagen-beetle-jetta-passat-fire-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5832","title":{"rendered":"2014 Volkswagen Beetle, Jetta, &#038; Passat Transmission Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of certain 2014 Volkswagen vehicles equipped with 1.8T engines and torque converter automatic transmissions, will be notified to return their vehicles to a manufacturer approved repair facility for a problem that could result in an automobile fire.  Approximately 26,452 vehicles are affected by this issue.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The vehicles affected include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-VOLKSWAGEN\/BEETLE\/2014\/\">2014 Volkswagen Beetle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-VOLKSWAGEN\/JETTA\/2014\/\">2014 Volkswagen Jetta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-VOLKSWAGEN\/PASSAT\/2014\/\">2014 Volkswagen Passat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due to a material change of the O-ring seals in the transmission oil cooler, the seals may have been manufactured out of specification.  The O-ring may not completely seal between the cooler and transmission, allowing a small transmission fluid leak.  Leaking fluid contacting a hot surface could result in a vehicle fire.  Volkswagen is not aware of any fires, injuries, or accidents attributed to this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Owners wanting more information about the problem can contact Volkswagen at 1-800-822-8987.   Volkswagen&#8217;s recall number is 38B9\/9V and the NHTSA campaign number is 14V-182.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of certain 2014 Volkswagen vehicles equipped with 1.8T engines and torque converter automatic transmissions, will be notified to return their vehicles to a manufacturer approved repair facility for a problem that could result in an automobile fire. Approximately 26,452 vehicles are affected by this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1317,152],"tags":[935,1246,1646,1115,1374,1161,591],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-lemon-law","category-lemon-alert","category-volkswagen","tag-automatic-transmission-problems","tag-fire-risk","tag-lemon-alert","tag-manufacturer-defect","tag-manufacturing-error","tag-repeated-automobile-problems","tag-volkswagen-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5834,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions\/5834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}