Recall Register

Volkswagen Cabrio: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 5 recall campaigns for the Volkswagen Cabrio, model years 1991 to 2002. NHTSA has 168 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 11 model years have a page on this register.

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. 19913
  2. 19921
  3. 19930
  4. 19950
  5. 19960
  6. 19970
  7. 19981
  8. 19990
  9. 20001
  10. 20011
  11. 20020
Volkswagen Cabrio: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Volkswagen Cabrio NHTSA page016105%
2001 Volkswagen Cabrio135229%332,950
2000 Volkswagen Cabrio NHTSA page116105%332,950
1999 Volkswagen Cabrio025164%
1998 Volkswagen Cabrio NHTSA page121138%487,284
1997 Volkswagen Cabrio NHTSA page01385%
1996 Volkswagen Cabrio NHTSA page0533%
1995 Volkswagen Cabrio NHTSA page01598%
1993 Volkswagen Cabrio NHTSA page0852%
1992 Volkswagen Cabrio NHTSA page1959%358,000
1991 Volkswagen Cabrio3533%370,190

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

274 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.

Volkswagen Cabrio: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System156.943
Engine and Engine Cooling124.134
Visibility87.624
Air Bags7320
Structure7320
Service Brakes, Hydraulic69.319
Power Train58.416
Fuel System, Gasoline54.715
Exterior Lighting54.715
Vehicle Speed Control54.715

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volkswagen Cabrio, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1992, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volkswagen Cabrio, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 28 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volkswagen: all 43 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volkswagen Cabrio: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volkswagen/cabrio/. 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 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 Cabrio model years have the most recall campaigns?
1991 with 3, 2001 with 1, 2000 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volkswagen Cabrio model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 35 of the 168 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volkswagen Cabrio name?
Electrical System: 156.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 124.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 87.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volkswagen Cabrio?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.