Volkswagen Tiguan, model year 2025. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 13 August 2025. 15 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 Tiguan vehicles. A tie rod bolt on the rear axle assembly may be loose, which can lead to a loss of vehicle control.
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: 42E7. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V526 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 25V526 cover?
- Volkswagen Tiguan, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 Tiguan vehicles. A tie rod bolt on the rear axle assembly may be loose, which can lead to a loss of vehicle control.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of vehicle control increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the affected tie rod bolt, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 5, 2025. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 42E7.
- 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 42E7, 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 loss of vehicle control increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V526 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Steering:Linkages:Tie Rod Assembly |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 August 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN |
What the notice says today
The defect
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 Tiguan vehicles. A tie rod bolt on the rear axle assembly may be loose, which can lead to a loss of vehicle control.
The consequence
A loss of vehicle control increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the affected tie rod bolt, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 5, 2025. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 42E7.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to e8aed9817644b738e66428a8df314ddc…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V526, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v526/
The copy quoted above hashes to e8aed9817644b738e66428a8df314ddc…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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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- 26V030: 2023-2025 ID
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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 25V526 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e2819f93 - Consequence
8b738ff7 - 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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