Volkswagen ID.4: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 26 recall campaigns for the Volkswagen ID.4, model years 2021 to 2026. NHTSA has 1,005 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 6 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 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 30 Sep 2026. Recall file through 30 Sep 2026.

Model years

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

Volkswagen ID.4: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2026 Volkswagen ID.4 NHTSA page	1	0	0%	27
2025 Volkswagen ID.4	1	27	16%	43,881
2024 Volkswagen ID.4	8	48	29%	183,421
2023 Volkswagen ID.4	14	459	274%	330,523
2022 Volkswagen ID.4	7	136	81%	277,460
2021 Volkswagen ID.4	11	335	200%	356,956

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

1,805 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 ID.4: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Electrical System	279.8	505
Unknown or Other	126.3	228
Forward Collision Avoidance	107.5	194
Vehicle Speed Control	68.1	123
Structure	65.9	119
Service Brakes	49.3	89
Back Over Prevention	47.6	86
Power Train	37.7	68
Fuel/Propulsion System	33.2	60
Engine	27.7	50

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volkswagen ID.4, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2022, with 6 campaigns.

Complaints about the Volkswagen ID.4, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2024, with 310 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Jetta79 campaigns
Passat54 campaigns
Beetle32 campaigns
Tiguan39 campaigns
Atlas48 campaigns
Golf54 campaigns
GTI34 campaigns
CC12 campaigns
Routan8 campaigns
Touareg12 campaigns
Taos8 campaigns
Atlas Cross Sport30 campaigns
EOS7 campaigns
Eurovan6 campaigns
New Beetle5 campaigns
Cabrio5 campaigns
Golf Sportwagen9 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 ID.4: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volkswagen/id-4/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 30 Sep 2026.

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 ID.4 model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2023 with 14, 2021 with 11, 2024 with 8. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volkswagen ID.4 model year has the most complaints?: The 2023 model year, with 459 of the 1,005 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volkswagen ID.4 name?: Electrical System: 279.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 126.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Forward Collision Avoidance: 107.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volkswagen ID.4?: 2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.