Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Jetta, Volkswagen Passat, model year 2016. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 6 June 2016. 55 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain model year 2016 Jetta vehicles manufactured October 31, 2015, to January 21, 2016, 2016 Passat vehicles, equipped with 1.8T engines manufactured November 13, 2015, to December 9, 2015, and 2016 Golf vehicles manufactured November 5, 2015, to November …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, 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.
Volkswagen's own number for this recall: 15F7. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V403 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 16V403 cover?
- Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Jetta, Volkswagen Passat, model year 2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain model year 2016 Jetta vehicles manufactured October 31, 2015, to January 21, 2016, 2016 Passat vehicles, equipped with 1.8T engines manufactured November 13, 2015, to December 9, 2015, and 2016 Golf vehicles manufactured November...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A fuel leak, in the presence of an ignition source, can result in a vehicle fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Volkswagen will notify owners, and dealers will replace the cylinder heads, free of charge. The manufacturer has not yet provided a notification schedule. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-822-8987. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 15F7.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Volkswagen calls this recall 15F7, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A fuel leak, in the presence of an ignition source, can result in a vehicle fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V403 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Fuel System, Gasoline:Fuel Injection System:Fuel Rail |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 June 2016 |
| Model years | 2016-2016 |
| Vehicles named | VOLKSWAGEN GOLF, VOLKSWAGEN JETTA, VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A fuel leak, in the presence of an ignition source, can result in a vehicle fire.
The remedy
Volkswagen will notify owners, and dealers will replace the cylinder heads, free of charge. The manufacturer has not yet provided a notification schedule. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-822-8987. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 15F7.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 470 notices in the record whose component field names fuel system, gasoline. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2016275, recorded 2 June 2016 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 15F7, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Volkswagen Golf recalls: 28 US campaigns
- Volkswagen Jetta recalls: 27 US campaigns
- Volkswagen Passat recalls: 28 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 16V403, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v403/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 16V403 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
73f59471 - Consequence
c02fb4a9 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 16V403 · how the whole register is watched
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