{"id":6468,"date":"2015-02-17T21:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2015-02-17T21:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T01:26:52","slug":"vw-audi-fuel-injection-system-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6468","title":{"rendered":"VW &#038; Audi Fuel Injection System Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Customer complaints regarding fuel odor in the engine compartment of certain Audi and Volkswagen vehicles will have approximately 26,000 owners returning to their dealership for repairs.  According to reports, a combination of production tolerance issues combined with vibrations during dynamic driving, could result in a fuel leak in the fuel injection system.  There have been no reports of accidents or injuries as a result of this safety defect, but a fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source could result in an engine fire.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The vehicles affected by this problem include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-AUDI\/A6\/2012\/\">2012 Audi A6<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2012-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-AUDI\/A7\/2013\/\">2013 Audi A7<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2011-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-AUDI\/Q7\/2013\/\">2013 Audi Q7<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2011-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-AUDI\/S4\/2013\/\">2013 Audi S4<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2011-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-AUDI\/S5\/2013\/\">2013 Audi S5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-VOLKSWAGEN\/TOUAREG+HYBRID\/2012\/\">2012 Volkswagen Touareg Hybrid<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fix for this defect includes the replacement of the fuel rails and corresponding seals.  For more information about the problem, owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-822-2834 or Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen&#8217;s numbers for this recall are 24AP for Audi customers, 24BK for Volkswagen customers, and the NHTSA campaign number is 15V-019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customer complaints regarding fuel odor in the engine compartment of certain Audi and Volkswagen vehicles will have approximately 26,000 owners returning to their dealership for repairs. According to reports, a combination of production tolerance issues combined with vibrations during dynamic driving, could result in a fuel leak in the fuel injection system. There have been&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6468\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[538,1317,152],"tags":[140,1089,361],"class_list":["post-6468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audi-recalls","category-lemon-alert","category-volkswagen","tag-automobile-safety","tag-fuel-smell","tag-posssible-engine-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468","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=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6469,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions\/6469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}