Recall · 26V321000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the VOLKSWAGEN Tiguan over back over prevention
8
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
May 20, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
BACK OVER PREVENTION:SOFTWARE
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2024 Tiguan vehicles previously repaired under recall 25V082. An error may occur in the camera control unit at vehicle startup, resulting in the rearview camera image not displaying as intended. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."
- What it can cause
- A rearview camera that does not display an image can reduce the driver's rear view, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the camera control unit software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 4, 2026. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 91NF. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning May 27, 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| VolkswagenTiguan | 2024 | 2024 |
How this campaign compares
At 8 vehicles this is a small campaign: 93% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2024, 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 back over prevention 11 times before this, most recently in May 2025 as 25V334000. 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 62 complaints with NHTSA, 38 of them before this campaign was filed. 5 of those name the back over prevention, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2024, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 25V082000 (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 20, 2026 as campaign 26V321000. 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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