You may be owed a payment for each eligible Vehicle that contained a qualifying Takata Air Bag Product as a result of a class action settlement.
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These Settlements resolve claims that these Automobile Manufacturers produced, distributed, or sold certain vehicles containing allegedly defective inflators manufactured by Takata Corporation and TK Holdings, Inc. that allegedly could, upon deployment, rupture and expel debris or shrapnel into the occupant compartment or otherwise affect the airbag’s deployment, and that the Plaintiffs sustained economic losses as a result thereof.
Volkswagen AG, Volkswagen Group of America,Inc., VW Credit, Inc., Audi AG, and Audi of America, LLC: $42,000,000
Your dealership may be eligible if it:
1) You owned and/or leased a Subject Vehicle distributed for sale or lease in the United States or any of its territories or possessions, as of the date of the issuance of the Preliminary Approval Order, or
2) Formerly owned and/or leased a Subject Vehicle distributed for sale or lease in the United States or any of its territories or possessions, and sold or returned, pursuant to a lease, a Subject Vehicle after February 9, 2016 through the date of the issuance of the Preliminary Approval Order
Excluded from this Class are: (a) Volkswagen, its officers, directors, and employees and outside counsel; its affiliates and affiliates’ officers, directors and employees; its distributors and distributors’ officers, directors and employees; and Volkswagen’s Dealers and their officers and directors; (b) Settlement Class Counsel, Plaintiffs’ counsel and their employees; (c) judicial officers and their immediate family members and associated court staff assigned to this case, any of the cases listed on Exhibit 1 to the Settlement Agreement, or the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals; (d) Automotive Recyclers and their outside counsel and employees; and (e) persons or entities who or which timely and properly exclude themselves from the Class.
A branded Dealership may not claim any brand from the same manufactured "Brand Family" as a Settling Defendant.
Eligible Vehicles must be on the list below and contain or contained Takata PSAN inflators in their driver or passenger front airbag that (i) have been recalled, or (ii) shall be recalled per the May 5, 2020 agreement between NHTSA and Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. regarding Takata SDI-D inflators.
YEAR(S) & MODELS
Model Years |
Make and Model |
2009-2017
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Volkswagen CC
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2010-2016
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Volkswagen Eos
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2010-2014 |
Volkswagen Golf
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2012-2015
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Volkswagen Passat
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2006-2008, 2010 | Volkswagen Passat Sedan
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2006-2008, 2010
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Volkswagen Passat Wagon
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2012-2019
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VW Beetle |
2012-2019
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VW Beetle Convertible |
YEAR(S) & MODELS
2006-2013 |
Audi A3
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2005-2008
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Audi A4 Avant
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2007-2009
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Audi A4 Cabriolet
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2005-2008 | Audi A4 Sedan
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2010-2012 |
Audi A5 Cabriolet
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2006-2011 |
Audi A6 Avant
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2005-2011 |
Audi A6 Sedan |
2009-2012 |
Audi Q5
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2017 |
Audi R8 Coupe
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2017 |
Audi R8 Spyder |
2008 |
Audi RS 4 Cabriolet |
2007-2008 |
Audi RS 4 Sedan
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2005-2008 |
Audi S4 Avant
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2007-2009 |
Audi S4 Cabriolet
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2005-2008 |
Audi S4 Sedan
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2010-2012 |
Audi S5 Cabriolet
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2007-2011 |
Audi S6 Sedan
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2016-2017 |
Audi TT Coupe
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2016-2017
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Audi TT Roadster
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The Claim Period shall run as follows: (a) Class Members who sold, or returned pursuant to a lease, a Subject Vehicle prior to the Preliminary Approval Order, shall have one year from the Effective Date to submit a Registration/Claim Form; and (b) Class Members who owned or leased a Subject Vehicle on the date of the issuance of the Preliminary Approval Order shall have one year from the Effective Date or one year from the date of the performance of the Recall Remedy on their Subject Vehicle, whichever is later, to submit a Registration/Claim Form, but no Registration/Claim Forms may be submitted after the Final Registration/Claim Deadline
Effective Date means the latest of the following dates on which the Final Judgment becomes final, unless Settlement Class Counsel and Volkswagen agree in writing to an earlier date: 61 days after the date when the Final Judgment is entered, if no appeal is timely filed or if no motion to extend the time for filing an appeal has been filed; or if only a motion to extend the time to file an appeal is filed within60 days after the Final Judgment is entered, the date on which the motion to extend is denied; or if any appeal is taken from the Final Judgment, the date on which all appeals therefrom, including petitions for rehearing or reargument, petitions for rehearing en banc and petitions for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States or any other form of review, have been finally disposed of in a manner that affirms the Final Judgment; or if Settlement Class Counsel and Volkswagen agree in writing, any other agreed date.
Disclaimer
Class members are not required to sign up with any third-party service in order to participate in the monetary relief, but may instead file their claim directly with the Class Administrator. No-cost assistance will be available from the Class Administrator and Class Counsel during the claims-filing period. For additional information class members may visit court approved website for this case, https://www.autoairbagsettlement.com/en.
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