Porsche 718 Boxster, Porsche 718 Cayman, Porsche 911, Porsche 911 Carrera, Porsche 911 Gt3 Rs, Porsche 911 Targa 4, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by Porsche Cars North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 2 March 2017. 120 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2016 911 GT3 RS and 911 R vehicles and 2017 911 Carrera, 911 Carrera Cabriolet, 911 Carrera 4, 911 Carrera 4S, 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet, 911 Carrera S, 911 Carrera S Cabriolet, 911 Targa 4, 911 Targa 4S, 911 Turbo S, 911 Turbo S Cabriolet, 718 Boxster, …
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.
Porsche's own number for this recall: AH03. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V134 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 17V134 cover?
- Porsche 718 Boxster, Porsche 718 Cayman, Porsche 911, Porsche 911 Carrera, Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Porsche 911 Targa 4, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2016 911 GT3 RS and 911 R vehicles and 2017 911 Carrera, 911 Carrera Cabriolet, 911 Carrera 4, 911 Carrera 4S, 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet, 911 Carrera S, 911 Carrera S Cabriolet, 911 Targa 4, 911 Targa 4S, 911 Turbo S, 911 Turbo S...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the air bag inflator initiator fails to ignite, the passenger frontal air bag will not deploy, increasing the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Porsche will notify owners, and dealers will replace the affected air bags, free of charge. The recall began May 15, 2017. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is AH03.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Porsche calls this recall AH03, 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: “If the air bag inflator initiator fails to ignite, the passenger frontal air bag will not deploy, increasing the risk of injury in the event of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V134 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Porsche Cars North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Frontal:Passenger Side:Inflator Module |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 March 2017 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | PORSCHE 718 BOXSTER, PORSCHE 718 CAYMAN, PORSCHE 911, PORSCHE 911 CARRERA, PORSCHE 911 GT3 RS, PORSCHE 911 TARGA 4 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the air bag inflator initiator fails to ignite, the passenger frontal air bag will not deploy, increasing the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
The remedy
Porsche will notify owners, and dealers will replace the affected air bags, free of charge. The recall began May 15, 2017. Owners may contact Porsche customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is AH03.
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 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. 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 models named here, across their whole recall history
- Porsche 718 Boxster recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Porsche 718 Cayman recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Porsche 911 recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Porsche 911 Carrera recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Porsche 911 GT3 RS recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Porsche 911 Targa 4 recalls: 3 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 17V134, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v134/
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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- 25V492: 2024-2025 Macan 4 Electric
- 25V415: 2025 Panamera E-hybrid, Taycan, and Panamera
- 25V221: 2022-2023 Taycan
- 25V220: 2024-2025 Macan Electric
- 25V079: 2025 911
- 25V078: 2023 911
All 92 Porsche campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 17V134 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
521f0431 - Consequence
ef553e02 - 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.
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