Volkswagen Tiguan. Published by Transport Canada as 2025679 on 10 December 2025. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the wiring for the passenger occupant detection system (PODS) may not have been manufactured properly. This could cause the airbag system to turn off the passenger-front airbag even when a passenger is seated.
Note: This problem would cause an error message to display on the instrument …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Transport Canada carries this recall as 2025679, dated 10 December 2025. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 25V854, dated 10 December 2025. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, 74HE.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2025679 | 25V854 |
| Dated | 10 December 2025 | 10 December 2025 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
| Make | Volkswagen | |
Both registers carry the same date for this defect.
These are the dates each register records against its own notice. They are separate administrative acts in two countries, recorded by two authorities under two sets of rules, and this page does not claim that one caused the other or that owners in either country were contacted on those days. What it shows is that the same manufacturer campaign reached the two registers on different dates.
Read the American notice 25V854, including every earlier version of its wording this site holds. The Canadian register explains why the manufacturer code is published there and what that makes possible. Canada and America sets every matched pair side by side.
Volkswagen TIGUAN in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Volkswagen TIGUAN is named on 28 American notices, 3 European and 10 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The European register
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/0863/16: VW Golf, Jetta, Up, Volkswagen CC, Tiguan, Polo, notified by Germany
- EU Safety Gate alert INFO/00145/21: Volkswagen Golf A7, Golf A7 Variant, Tiguan, Jetta A7, Golf A7 TDI, notified by France
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/01680/21: Volkswagen (VW) Tiguan, notified by France
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2025679
- Recall date
- 10 December 2025
- Make
- Volkswagen
- Models
- Tiguan
- Model years
- 2025
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 946
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the wiring for the passenger occupant detection system (PODS) may not have been manufactured properly. This could cause the airbag system to turn off the passenger-front airbag even when a passenger is seated.
Note: This problem would cause an error message to display on the instrument panel and a warning chime to sound. The airbag indicator light would also display "passenger airbag off".Safety Risk:
An airbag that is turned off could increase the risk of injury to a passenger in a crash.Corrective Actions:
Volkswagen advises that you shouldn't use the front passenger seat if a PODS error message displays on the instrument panel or if the airbag indicator light displays "passenger airbag off" with an occupant in the seat. Volkswagen will notify owners by mail and advise you to take your vehicle to a dealership to repair the passenger-front seat wiring harness.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2025679.
Volkswagen elsewhere in this register
Volkswagen is named on 284 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2025668 · 3 December 2025 · Atlas Cross Sport · Wheels
- 2025669 · 3 December 2025 · Id.4 · High Voltage
- 2025503 · 24 September 2025 · Golf R, A5, GTI · Seats And Restraints
- 2025355 · 25 June 2025 · Atlas Cross Sport, Id.4, Atlas · Suspension
- 2025272 · 21 May 2025 · Atlas, Atlas Cross Sport · Visual System
- 2025221 · 23 April 2025 · Id.buzz · Seats And Restraints
- 2025191 · 9 April 2025 · Id.buzz · Lights And Instruments
- 2025100 · 28 February 2025 · Id.4, Q4 E-Tron · Electrical
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2025678 · 9 December 2025 · Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus, Minotour DRW School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2025690 · 12 December 2025 · Escape, Corsair · Seats And Restraints
- 2025696 · 18 December 2025 · Ce School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 2025724 · 18 December 2025 · Aviator, Corsair · Seats And Restraints
- 2025712 · 19 December 2025 · A6, S6, S5 · Seats And Restraints
- 2025722 · 24 December 2025 · All4one · Seats And Restraints
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Volkswagen Tiguan, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Volkswagen: 284 in the register, and 656 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2025.
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