NHTSA Safety Recalls
2017 Volkswagen Passat Recalls
The 2017 Volkswagen Passat has 7 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on October 30, 2024.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2017 Volkswagen Passat. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 7
- Owner complaints
- 110
- Crashes reported
- 9
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
overall, 5 stars max
On a 2017 Volkswagen Passat, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
7 recalls on the 2017 Volkswagen Passat
Air bags: frontal: driver side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 24V834000
- Reported
- October 30, 2024
- Vehicles affected
- up to 248,330
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2006–2007, 2012–2014 Passat, 1 other model
Unknown or other
- Campaign
- 21V321000
- Reported
- May 5, 2021
- Vehicles affected
- up to 46
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash, fire and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2016 Passat, 7 other models
Unknown or other
- Campaign
- 20V561000
- Reported
- September 16, 2020
- Vehicles affected
- up to 23
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2016, 2018 Passat, 2 other models
Unknown or other
- Campaign
- 19V679000
- Reported
- September 25, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 113
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash, fire and injury
- Same campaign
- also 4 other models
Exterior lighting: headlights
- Campaign
- 19V389000
- Reported
- May 22, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 662,185
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Federal standard
- FMVSS 108, lamps and reflective devices
- Same campaign
- also 2012–2016, 2018–2020 Passat, 1 other model
Service brakes, hydraulic: foundation components: disc: caliper
- Campaign
- 18V536000
- Reported
- August 15, 2018
- Vehicles affected
- up to 8,416
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2018 Passat, 1 other model
Service brakes, hydraulic: fluid
- Campaign
- 17V075000
- Reported
- February 8, 2017
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,007
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- only the 2017 Volkswagen Passat
2017 Volkswagen Passat complaints by year
NHTSA has received 110 owner complaints about the 2017 Volkswagen Passat, the newest on August 27, 2026. Of these, 9 describe a crash (8%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 3 injuries.
In complaints about the 2017 Volkswagen Passat, the component group named most often is the air bags (25%), followed by the electrical system (16%) and the forward collision avoidance (15%).
1 of the 2017 Volkswagen Passat's 7 recalls also concerns the air bags.
Where 2017 Volkswagen Passat owners gave the mileage (51 complaints), the median was 32,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags28
- Unknown Or Other21
- Electrical System18
- Forward Collision Avoidance16
- Steering16
- Service Brakes15
Complaints received, by year
| 2017 | 8 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 14 | |
| 2019 | 11 | |
| 2020 | 10 | |
| 2021 | 21 | |
| 2022 | 15 | |
| 2023 | 11 | |
| 2024 | 9 | |
| 2025 | 7 | |
| 2026 | 4 |
Complaints about the 2017 Volkswagen Passat peaked in 2021, when NHTSA received 21. 39% arrived between 2016 and 2020, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2017 vehicles, the 2017 Volkswagen Passat drew 0.6× the complaints of the median Volkswagen Passat year in the same window: 13th highest of the 20 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: ★★★★★
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 4/5
The 110 complaints about the 2017 Volkswagen Passat are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Volkswagen Passat by model year
Other 2017 Volkswagen models
Newest record on this page: August 27, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted