Recall Register

Porsche Cayenne: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 27 recall campaigns for the Porsche Cayenne, model years 2003 to 2026. NHTSA has 20 complaints on file for this model line. 20 of the 23 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20032
  2. 20046
  3. 20054
  4. 20063
  5. 20083
  6. 20092
  7. 20102
  8. 20113
  9. 20124
  10. 20133
  11. 20143
  12. 20152
  13. 20162
  14. 20172
  15. 20181
  16. 20196
  17. 20204
  18. 20215
  19. 20222
  20. 20231
  21. 20244
  22. 20252
  23. 20261
Porsche Cayenne: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Porsche Cayenne NHTSA page100%177
2025 Porsche Cayenne200%172,284
2024 Porsche Cayenne400%177,693
2023 Porsche Cayenne NHTSA page100%172,107
2022 Porsche Cayenne200%173,348
2021 Porsche Cayenne500%175,079
2020 Porsche Cayenne400%218,176
2019 Porsche Cayenne600%230,859
2018 Porsche Cayenne NHTSA page100%142
2017 Porsche Cayenne200%223,000
2016 Porsche Cayenne200%311,158
2015 Porsche Cayenne200%88,302
2014 Porsche Cayenne300%311,365
2013 Porsche Cayenne300%311,365
2012 Porsche Cayenne400%331,706
2011 Porsche Cayenne300%331,436
2010 Porsche Cayenne200%322,523
2009 Porsche Cayenne23345%322,523
2008 Porsche Cayenne31115%328,096
2006 Porsche Cayenne34460%372,668
2005 Porsche Cayenne46690%403,668
2004 Porsche Cayenne66690%426,942
2003 Porsche Cayenne200%253,858

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

29 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Porsche Cayenne: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling206.96
Air Bags137.94
Tires103.43
Electrical System103.43
Power Train103.43
Vehicle Speed Control692
Exterior Lighting34.51
Suspension34.51
Service Brakes, Hydraulic34.51
Fuel System, Gasoline34.51

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Porsche Cayenne, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Porsche Cayenne, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2006, with 5 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Porsche: all 75 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Porsche Cayenne: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/porsche/cayenne/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
Porsche Cars North America, Inc.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Porsche Cayenne model years have the most recall campaigns?
2019 with 6, 2004 with 6, 2021 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Porsche Cayenne model year has the most complaints?
The 2004 model year, with 6 of the 20 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Porsche Cayenne name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 6 component mentions. Air Bags: 4 component mentions. Tires: 3 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Porsche Cayenne?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.