Porsche Boxster, Porsche Boxster S, Porsche Cayenne, Porsche Cayenne Diesel, Porsche Cayenne Gts, Porsche Cayenne S, model years 2001 to 2020. Filed by Porsche Cars North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 30 August 2022. 222,858 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2003-2020 Porsche Macan, Cayenne, Panamera, and Cayman S, 2001-2004 Boxster, Boxster S, 2004 Boxster 50 JAHRE SPYDER 550 vehicles. Please see the recall report for a complete list of all affected models and model years. The caps that cover the low-beam …
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: ANB4. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V656 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 22V656 cover?
- Porsche Boxster, Porsche Boxster S, Porsche Cayenne, Porsche Cayenne Diesel, Porsche Cayenne GTS, Porsche Cayenne S, Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid, Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid, model years 2001-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2003-2020 Porsche Macan, Cayenne, Panamera, and Cayman S, 2001-2004 Boxster, Boxster S, 2004 Boxster 50 JAHRE SPYDER 550 vehicles. Please see the recall report for a complete list of all affected models and model years.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Improperly adjusted headlights may not illuminate the road properly, or cause a glare to oncoming drivers, which can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect the headlights for sealing caps and install missing caps as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 28, 2022. Owners may contact Porsche's customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is ANB4.
- 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 ANB4, 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: “Improperly adjusted headlights may not illuminate the road properly, or cause a glare to oncoming drivers, which can increase the risk of a crash.”
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in the notice
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| Campaign | 22V656 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Porsche Cars North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Headlights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 August 2022 |
| Model years | 2001-2020 |
| Vehicles named | PORSCHE BOXSTER, PORSCHE BOXSTER S, PORSCHE CAYENNE, PORSCHE CAYENNE DIESEL, PORSCHE CAYENNE GTS, PORSCHE CAYENNE S, PORSCHE CAYENNE S E-HYBRID, PORSCHE CAYENNE S HYBRID, PORSCHE CAYENNE TRANSSYBERIA, PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO, PORSCHE CAYENNE TURBO S, PORSCHE CAYMAN S, PORSCHE MACAN, PORSCHE MACAN S |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Improperly adjusted headlights may not illuminate the road properly, or cause a glare to oncoming drivers, which can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect the headlights for sealing caps and install missing caps as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 28, 2022. Owners may contact Porsche's customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is ANB4.
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 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 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 2022487, recorded 31 August 2022 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on ANB4, 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
- Porsche Boxster recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Porsche Boxster S recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Porsche Cayenne recalls: 22 US campaigns
- Porsche Cayenne GTS recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Porsche Cayenne S recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Porsche Cayenne Turbo recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Porsche Macan recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Porsche Macan S recalls: 8 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 22V656, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v656/
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.
Other Porsche notices we hold
- 25V896: 2019-2025 Cayenne, Cayenne E-Hybrid, 2020-2025 911, Taycan, 2024-2025 Panamera, and 2025 Panamera E-Hybrid
- 25V634: 2024-2026 Panamera, Cayenne, and 2025 Panamera E-Hybrid
- 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 22V656 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
44833150 - Consequence
af7298fd - 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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