2 NHTSA safety recalls cover the 2025 Volkswagen ID.4. Owners have filed 27 complaints with NHTSA about this model year. Every recall repair is free at any Volkswagen dealer.
Is yours affected? Recalls cover ranges of VINs, not every 2025 Volkswagen ID.4. Check your ID.4 by VIN and confirm open recalls at NHTSA.gov.
Each campaign as NHTSA published it: what is wrong, what can happen, and the fix. Newest first.
Owners filed 27 complaints with NHTSA about the 2025 Volkswagen ID.4, reporting 10 crashes, 3 fires, 5 injuries. Volkswagen has issued at least 152 technical service bulletins (repair instructions to dealers) for this model year. Complaints are unverified owner reports; a recall is the manufacturer’s admission of a safety defect.
Read Volkswagen ID.4 owner complaints and bulletins, every year
Owners have filed 27 complaints with NHTSA about the 2025 Volkswagen ID.4. A few in their own words, shortened. Complaints are unverified and are not proof of a defect or of any recall.
“Incident Summary & Vehicle Behavior: I am filing this safety defect report regarding a critical sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) incident in my 2025 Volkswagen ID.4 that resulted in a crash.”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11767626
“The car was in neutral while in a drive through car wash. Then, when stopped and shifted to drive, the car bolted forward very suddenly and fast. Went through fence.”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11757476
“On 6/29/2026, While engaging the brakes on my leased ID.4, I was slowing down approaching another car, and suddenly the vehicle surged forward with full acceleration. It then suddenly re-engaged the brakes just before the vehicle in front of me.”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11753066
“I was trying to park the car in a parking spot. There was a curb to my right, So I was turning carefully to not rake my wheel against the curb. The car suddenly accelerated by itself, jumped the curb infront, hit a tree and stopped.”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11749746
“Following the recent winter update, I noticed several faults during the weekend prior to the major incident described below: Child Lock Malfunction: The car entered "child mode" and the rear door could not be opened from the inside or outside until I exited and re-entered the vehicle.”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11730071
Search the official database: NHTSA. Excerpts are quoted from the public record, shortened at a sentence and with personal details removed.
Not every 2025 Volkswagen ID.4 is in every recall. Enter your 17-character VIN to see the recalls on record for your exact vehicle, then confirm which are still open at NHTSA.gov or with any Volkswagen dealer.