Recall · 25V854000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the VOLKSWAGEN Tiguan over air bags
3,138
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
December 10, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION:FRONT PASSENGER
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 Tiguan vehicles. The passenger occupant detection system (PODS) may experience a fault in the wiring and deactivate the front passenger air bag when the seat is occupied.
- What it can cause
- A deactivated passenger air bag increases the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised not to allow occupants to sit in the front passenger seat until the remedy is complete. Dealers will repair the affected wiring harness in the front passenger seat, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 15, 2026. Owners may contact Volkswagen's customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 74HE. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 12, 2025.
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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| VolkswagenTiguan | 2025 | 2025 |
How this campaign compares
At 3,138 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 70% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2025, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2025, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 33 times before this, most recently in October 2024 as 24V834000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 46 complaints with NHTSA, 6 of them before this campaign was filed. 5 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 26V587000 (electrical system), 25V526000 (steering).
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 December 10, 2025 as campaign 25V854000. 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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