Volkswagen Passat

Common Passat problems

Across 10 model years (2015–2024), the Volkswagen Passat carries 28 recall campaigns, one of them an urgent do-not-drive or park-outside order. Owners have filed 538 complaints with NHTSA. Crash-test ratings cover 8 of 10 model years. Choose a year below for the full report.

Safety record by model year

Counts are raw NHTSA figures and are not normalised by how many were sold, so a high-volume year tends to show more of everything.

Year	Recalls	Complaints	Rating	Report link
2024	0	0	—	Report
2023	0	0	—	Report
2022	0	11		Report
2021	1	0		Report
2020	3	15		Report
2019	1	12		Report
2018	4	45		Report
2017	7	107		Report
2016	5	106		Report
2015	7	242		Report

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