VW Touareg Hybrid Fire Danger
carcomplaints.comVolkswagen is recalling 825 Touareg Hybrid SUVs with batteries that can get wet and catch on fire. Buying a hybrid and generating your own heat source? That’s taking 'going green' to a whole new level.

Owners have made the most complaints about Engine problems, followed by issues with the , and .
The Touareg Hybrid has 1 generations. Generations are groups of model years where the vehicles are continuously produced, using similar engineering and shared features. Generation data isn't always cut-and-dry and is often different for different countries. When in doubt, we use North American generation data.
Volkswagen is recalling 825 Touareg Hybrid SUVs with batteries that can get wet and catch on fire. Buying a hybrid and generating your own heat source? That’s taking 'going green' to a whole new level.
Manufacturers can sometimes drag their feet when it comes to issuing recalls. But whenever there’s reports of fuel leaking out of cars they start to move like someone lit a fire under their butt. That’s because, well … there might actually be real fires soon. Last week Volkswagen recalled 26,000 cars for fuel injectors that leak. Just a couple days later they expanded that recall to include an additional 45,000 cars.