NHTSA has recorded 27 distinct safety campaigns against the Volkswagen JETTA since 2016. The Dutch register holds 9, for the 6,980 of them registered on Dutch roads.
2016–2025
all years on file
the Dutch road
American regulators have recorded 18 more distinct campaigns against the Volkswagen JETTA than the Dutch register holds.
What those campaigns were about
NHTSA files every campaign against the system at fault. For the Volkswagen JETTA, the American record breaks down like this: counted once per campaign, not once per model year.
| Electrical system | 6 |
|---|---|
| Equipment | 4 |
| Fuel system, gasoline | 3 |
| Engine and engine cooling | 2 |
| Suspension | 2 |
| Air bags | 2 |
| Seats | 2 |
| Exterior lighting | 1 |
What this does not mean. A larger count on one side is not proof that the other country's owners were abandoned. Model variants differ between markets, an American campaign can cover an engine or body never sold in Europe, and a privately imported car has no national importer obliged to write to its owner, which is itself worth knowing. We publish the difference as a measured fact and an open question, never as an accusation.
Check whether a Volkswagen JETTA recall was quietly rewritten · check your own car, by country
US figures are distinct NHTSA campaign numbers for vehicle recalls, read from NHTSA's published bulk file, last read 9 September 2026. Dutch figures are campaigns recorded by the Netherlands vehicle register; the fleet count is the Netherlands vehicle register's vehicle register. One campaign counts once however many model years it covers.
What the JETTA record is mostly about
Recalls are not interchangeable, and this model’s are not spread evenly. The single largest group is electrical system, with 6 of the 27 American campaigns filed against it, followed by equipment (4) and fuel system, gasoline (3). The full breakdown is in the table above, counted once per campaign rather than once per model year: a single campaign covering six years of JETTA production counts once here, which is not how most recall counts are quoted.
Check a Volkswagen JETTA
A recall lookup tells you what is open on your car today. It does not tell you whether the notice was edited after it was published: manufacturers revise them, and the new version replaces the old one on the public record. We keep the originals, hashed and dated. Check a Volkswagen JETTA against ours, or look your own car up by country.
How these two registers are compared, why most models cannot be compared at all, and which forty can: the method is here. Figures rebuild themselves from NHTSA’s bulk file and the Netherlands national vehicle register’s open data; freshness is public on the status page.
Every campaign, as the authority wrote it
19 campaigns named this model and we hold the notice for each. The page behind every number carries the fault, the fix and the wording as filed - and any later change to that wording.
- 26V185Volkswagen recall 26V185: 2025 Jetta and Taos
- 26V138Volkswagen recall 26V138: 2025-2026 Jetta
- 23V619Volkswagen recall 23V619: 2019 Jetta
- 23V604Volkswagen recall 23V604: Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Golf Alltrack, Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen and 2 more (2019 to 2020)
- 21V492Volkswagen recall 21V492: 2020-2021 Jetta and Jetta GLI
- 21V038Volkswagen recall 21V038: 2021 Volkswagen Tiguan Long Wheelbase and Jetta
- 20V648Volkswagen recall 20V648: 2016-2018 Jetta
- 20V505Volkswagen recall 20V505: Audi Q5, Audi Sq5, Volkswagen Atlas and 3 more (2020 to 2021)
- 19V615Volkswagen recall 19V615: Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen Beetle Convertible, Volkswagen Golf and 3 more (2011 to 2019)
- 19V188Volkswagen recall 19V188: Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen, Volkswagen Jetta and 1 more (2015 to 2019)
- 19V110Volkswagen recall 19V110: 2019 Jetta
- 18V904Volkswagen recall 18V904: Volkswagen Atlas, Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Jetta (2015 to 2019)
- 18V824Volkswagen recall 18V824: Volkswagen Atlas, Volkswagen Jetta, Volkswagen Tiguan (2018 to 2019)
- 18V671Volkswagen recall 18V671: 2019 Volkswagen Jetta
- 18V406Volkswagen recall 18V406: Volkswagen Eurovan, Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Jetta and 1 more (2003 to 2003)
- 17V352Volkswagen recall 17V352: 2017 Jetta
- 17V137Volkswagen recall 17V137: 2017 Jetta
- 17V070Volkswagen recall 17V070: 2017 Jetta
- 15V483Volkswagen recall 15V483: Volkswagen CC, Volkswagen Eos, Volkswagen Golf and 4 more (2010 to 2014)
The rest of the Volkswagen record
Every Volkswagen campaign we hold, newest first, with the ones caught being rewritten marked.
Other Volkswagen models:
Atlas47Tiguan36Atlas Cross Sport30Golf28Passat28Id.425Gti21Beetle17Golf R16CC11Golf Sportwagen9E-Golf8Taos8Arteon6Beetle Convertible6Eos5Touareg5Golf Alltrack4Jetta Hybrid3Routan3Touareg Hybrid3
Volkswagen Jetta across the registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Volkswagen Jetta is named on 34 American notices, 80 Canadian, 2 European and 4 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules. Nothing here says any one of them is another one in a different country.
American
- Volkswagen recall 11V490 - Model 2009-2012 Jetta and Jetta Sportwagen
- Volkswagen recall 11V466 - Model Year 2011-2012 Jetta Sedan
- Volkswagen recall 11V196 - Model Year 2011 Jetta
Canadian
- Canadian recall 2024095 (Volkswagen and 1 more), 2015 to 2020: Fuel System
- Canadian recall 2020392 (Volkswagen and 1 more), 2020 to 2021: Seats And Restraints
- Canadian recall 2019292 (Volkswagen), 2019: Lights And Instruments
European
- 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
Israeli
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