Model years Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport
2022 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport
This year drew an ordinary 70 complaints for a Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport — the model's median is 90. What they were about is the unusual part: 28.6% of them mention brakes, against 10% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 70 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 90 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brakes — 28.6% of this year's complaints, against 10% across the model's other years (2.9×).
- nothing — 17.1% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the model's other years (3.5×).
- press — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.6% across the model's other years (11.6×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
JUST PURCHACED MY ATLAS AROUND SEPTEMBER, AFTER DRIVING IT A MONTH WE NOTICED A LOAD SCREACH SOUND WEN COMING TO A STOP, I HAVE TAKEN IT TO TO0 VW DEALERS ONLY TO BE TOLD VOLKSWAGON IS AWARE OF THE ISSUE AND THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO, NOW THE BRAKES GRIND A…
I have taken my car to the dealer and had them look at the brakes. Every time I press on the brakes it makes a grinding sound almost as if the car is to heavy for the brakes and skids a little. At Findlay Volkswagen they tell me they are aware of the problem,…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V152000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 22V245000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 22V514000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 22V657000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
- 22V753000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 22V807000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 24V464000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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