Recall Register

Volkswagen R32: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the Volkswagen R32, model years 2004 to 2008. NHTSA has 125 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 4 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. 20041
  2. 20061
  3. 20071
  4. 20082
Volkswagen R32: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2008 Volkswagen R322111355%345,000
2007 Volkswagen R32 NHTSA page113%340,000
2006 Volkswagen R32 NHTSA page100%340,000
2004 Volkswagen R32 NHTSA page11342%1,002,000

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

146 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 R32: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train595.987
Fuel System, Gasoline143.821
Electrical System47.97
Engine and Engine Cooling41.16
Exterior Lighting41.16
Tires27.44
Air Bags20.53
Structure13.72
Seat Belts13.72
Suspension6.81

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Volkswagen R32, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2007, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Volkswagen R32, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2009, with 72 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Volkswagen: all 43 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Volkswagen R32: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/volkswagen/r32/. 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
15 May 2019
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 R32 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 2, 2007 with 1, 2006 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Volkswagen R32 model year has the most complaints?
The 2008 model year, with 111 of the 125 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Volkswagen R32 name?
Power Train: 595.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 143.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 47.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Volkswagen R32?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.