2018 VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS — Complaint #1558456
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558456 (ODI reference 11196746) concerns a 2018 VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 16, 2019. The vehicle had 10,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS cohort independently describe similar engine failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
BATTERY DIES WITH SHORT IDLE. WAITED LESS THAN 10 MINUTES FOR MY HUSBAND AND WARNING CAME ON TO DRIVE THE CAR TO CHARGE THE BATTERY. I WAS IN A PARKING LOT WITH AIR CONDITIONING ON. ENGINE HAD MANUALLY SHUT OFF SO I WENT TO RESTART AND BATTERY WOULD NOT TURN ON. THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558456 |
| ODI Number | 11196746 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 16, 2019 |
| VIN | 1V2GR2CA0AJ |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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