Recall · 26V030000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 over electrical system
43,881
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
January 21, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM:TRACTION BATTERY
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2023-2025 ID.4 vehicles. The high-voltage battery may overheat.
- What it can cause
- A high-voltage battery that overheats increases the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the high-voltage battery software, and replace the high-voltage battery, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 18, 2026. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 93EA. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on January 23, 2026.
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 43,881 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 88% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2023 to 2025, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 23 times before this, most recently in December 2025 as 25V836000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 527 complaints with NHTSA, 426 of them before this campaign was filed. 267 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2022, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 14 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V028000 (electrical system), 25V836000 (electrical system), 25V434000 (service brakes), 25V125000 (electrical system).
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 January 21, 2026 as campaign 26V030000. 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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