Volkswagen Golf 2009–2012 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin Circular - 20T8 · NHTSA communication 10127984 · issued May 29, 2015
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Fuel System, Diesel
component
2009–2012
model years
11
vehicle entries
Official summary
Service Action Campaign: As diesel engine passenger vehicles become more popular, auto manufacturers have seen an increase in the number of misfueling cases where diesel engine vehicles are mistakenly fueled with gasoline. As an additional safeguard to help prevent a gasoline fuel pump nozzle from being used to fuel a TDI Clean Diesel engine vehicle, dealers will install a misfueling guard in the fuel filler neck of vehicles affected by this action. This document contains the fault codes work procedure for servicing these issues
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.