Recall Register

Volkswagen Beetle Convertible: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the Volkswagen Beetle Convertible, model years 2008 to 2019. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 8 of the 11 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. 20081
  2. 20091
  3. 20101
  4. 20123
  5. 20133
  6. 20142
  7. 20152
  8. 20162
  9. 20172
  10. 20183
  11. 20192
Volkswagen Beetle Convertible: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2019 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible20927,357
2018 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible30937,582
2017 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible20927,357
2016 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible20716,585
2015 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible20716,585
2014 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible20784,679
2013 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible30784,792
2012 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible30784,792
2010 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible NHTSA page10113
2009 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible NHTSA page10113
2008 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible NHTSA page10113

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.

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volkswagen Beetle Convertible, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volkswagen Beetle Convertible, by the year NHTSA received them.

Other model lines of the make

Volkswagen: all 43 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volkswagen Beetle Convertible: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volkswagen/beetle-convertible/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
Volkswagen Group of 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 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible model years have the most recall campaigns?
2018 with 3, 2013 with 3, 2012 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volkswagen Beetle Convertible model year has the most complaints?
The NHTSA complaint file has no complaint for this model line.