2011 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF Recalls — Canada & USA

The 2011 Volkswagen Golf has 3 recalls, the most serious being a Takata driver's airbag inflator that can explode during deployment, sending metal fragments into the cabin and causing serious injury or death. Prior repair attempts on some vehicles may not have fully resolved the issue, and this defect is covered under more than one recall campaign addressing the same underlying inflator problem. The third recall is a compliance issue specific to Canadian-market vehicles: the daytime running light system can be deactivated in a way that does not meet Canadian lighting standards, leaving the vehicle without running lights in conditions where they would otherwise be required.