Recall · 23V312000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 over structure
35,325
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
May 3, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR:HANDLE:EXTERIOR
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2021-2022 ID.4 vehicles. The affected vehicles may have been manufactured with door handles that allow water to enter the circuit board assembly, which can cause the doors to open unexpectedly when the vehicle is subject to high lateral forces at speeds below 9 mph/15 kmh.
- What it can cause
- A vehicle door that opens unexpectedly while the vehicle is in motion increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the vehicle software, and inspect the door handles as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 19, 2023. Owners may contact Volkswagen's customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall are 57J5 and 57J8. This recall was replaced by recall number 24V-651
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 35,325 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 87% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the structure 7 times before this, most recently in March 2023 as 23V213000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 464 complaints with NHTSA, 121 of them before this campaign was filed. 49 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 13 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V120000 (power train), 24V651000 (structure), 24V344000 (back over prevention), 23V436000 (back over prevention).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. with NHTSA on May 3, 2023 as campaign 23V312000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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