Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen, model years 2013 to 2019. NHTSA has 172 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 6 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen | 5 | 11 | 38% | 1,355,039 |
| 2018 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen | 5 | 12 | 42% | 1,039,850 |
| 2017 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen | 4 | 38 | 133% | 1,029,625 |
| 2016 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen | 3 | 51 | 178% | 295,641 |
| 2015 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen | 3 | 59 | 206% | 294,538 |
| 2013 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 3% |
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
248 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical System | 149.2 | 37 |
| Air Bags | 149.2 | 37 |
| Unknown or Other | 129 | 32 |
| Suspension | 116.9 | 29 |
| Engine | 92.7 | 23 |
| Structure | 56.5 | 14 |
| Power Train | 56.5 | 14 |
| Fuel/Propulsion System | 52.4 | 13 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 40.3 | 10 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 36.3 | 9 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Jetta79 campaigns
- Passat54 campaigns
- Beetle32 campaigns
- Tiguan39 campaigns
- Atlas48 campaigns
- Golf54 campaigns
- GTI34 campaigns
- ID.426 campaigns
- CC12 campaigns
- Routan8 campaigns
- Touareg12 campaigns
- Taos8 campaigns
- Atlas Cross Sport30 campaigns
- EOS7 campaigns
- Eurovan6 campaigns
- New Beetle5 campaigns
- Cabrio5 campaigns
- Jetta Sportwagen2 campaigns
- Rabbit20 campaigns
- Corrado6 campaigns
- R323 campaigns
- Jetta Hybrid3 campaigns
- Golf Alltrack4 campaigns
- Fox5 campaigns
- Golf R16 campaigns
- E-Golf8 campaigns
- Vanagon15 campaigns
- Passat Wagon3 campaigns
- Cabriolet6 campaigns
- Arteon6 campaigns
- Beetle Convertible6 campaigns
- Scirocco16 campaigns
- ID. Buzz2 campaigns
- Quantum4 campaigns
- Camper6 campaigns
- Dasher5 campaigns
- Type III7 campaigns
- Type I16 campaigns
- Type II13 campaigns
- Karman Ghia5 campaigns
- Touareg Hybrid3 campaigns
- Syncro3 campaigns
- Thing3 campaigns
Volkswagen: all 44 model lines
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volkswagen/golf-sportwagen/. 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
- 30 Sep 2026
- 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 Golf Sportwagen model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2019 with 5, 2018 with 5, 2017 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen model year has the most complaints?
- The 2015 model year, with 59 of the 172 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen name?
- Electrical System: 149.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 149.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 129 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen?
- 1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.