Recall · 26V185000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 2 models over electrical system
75,323
Vehicles covered
2
Models
2
Model years
March 25, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INSTRUMENT CLUSTER/PANEL
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 Jetta and Taos vehicles. The instrument panel may fail to display warning lights or gauges. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 101, "Control and Displays."
- What it can cause
- An instrument panel that does not display critical safety information, such as the speedometer or warning lights, can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the instrument panel software and replace the instrument panel as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 22, 2026. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 90Z5. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on March 22, 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 75,323 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 91% 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, 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 26 times before this, most recently in March 2026 as 26V138000. 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 33 complaints with NHTSA, 9 of them before this campaign was filed. 7 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 2 other recalls published here: 26V258000 (fuel system, gasoline), 26V138000 (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 25, 2026 as campaign 26V185000. 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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