# Service bulletin SM 13\-2020

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10172557
- Published by NHTSA: 2020\-04\-02
- Manufacturer's number: SM 13\-2020
- Manufacturer's date: 2020\-03\-10
- NHTSA component: STRUCTURE

## NHTSA's summary

This special notice is to inform dealers to return the part listed and order the superseded part number going forward

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10172557-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10172557-9999.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Body and frame

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 AUDI A3
- 2014 AUDI A3
- 2015 to 2020 AUDI A3
- 2013 to 2020 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF
- 2015 to 2020 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2018626](/recalls/tc/2018626.md), 2018-11-14: Structure
- [2016319](/recalls/tc/2016319.md), 2016-06-22: Structure

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [TSB\_2078648\_4](/bulletins/11038056.md), 2026-10-05, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This bulletin provides information about billing for a broken sunroof glass panel.
- [TSB\_2068999\_5](/bulletins/11038033.md), 2026-10-05, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This TSB describes a corrosion issue due to outside influence and the prohibition of warranty in these cases.
- [TSB\_2078648\_3](/bulletins/11036926.md), 2026-09-04, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This service information TSB provides warranty coverage information for vehicles with a broken sunroof panel.
- [TSB\_2076945\_2](/bulletins/11036922.md), 2026-09-04, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This bulletin provides information about leather care and seat repair.
- [TSB\_2068999\_4](/bulletins/11036908.md), 2026-09-04, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This TSB describes a corrosion issue due to outside influence and the prohibition of warranty in these cases.
- [TSB\_2078648\_2](/bulletins/11035818.md), 2026-08-05, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This service information TSB provides warranty coverage information for vehicles with a broken sunroof panel.
- [TSB\_2073282\_1](/bulletins/11035809.md), 2026-08-05, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This bulletin provides information when there is a film/visible rings on the clear glass cover of the headlight when the dipped beam is switched on.
- [TSB\_2068573\_5](/bulletins/11034651.md), 2026-07-07, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This bulletin provides informaoitn when the rear parking sensor sometimes does not work, is loose, or there is a rear parking sensor fault message.
- [SM 26\-2026](/bulletins/11033526.md), 2026-06-04, Other: STRUCTURE:BODY. This special notice is to inform dealers to return the parts listed if it meets the criteria provided.
- [TSB\_2030471\_8](/bulletins/11025323.md), 2025-11-08, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This bulletin provides informaiton when the license plate mouting bracket threaded inserts are stripped.

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