Recall · 26V138000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the VOLKSWAGEN Jetta over electrical system
48,165
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
March 11, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Jetta vehicles. The transmission ground wire may not have been properly connected during assembly, causing an open electrical circuit.
- What it can cause
- An open circuit may draw a higher current and increase the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and repair transmission ground wire as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 31, 2026. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 97TC. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on March 13, 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 48,165 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 89% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2025 to 2026, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 25 times before this, most recently in January 2026 as 26V030000. 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 29 complaints with NHTSA, 9 of them before this campaign was filed. 5 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 February 2025, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 26V185000 (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 March 11, 2026 as campaign 26V138000. 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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