Safety Score
88
Safe
Recalls
1
Complaints
44
NCAP Stars
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Recalls (1)
| Date | NHTSA ID | Component | Units | Completion | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-26 | 16V243000 |
TIRES:PRESSURE MONITORING AND REGULATING SYSTEMS | 366 | — | Details |
Owner Complaints (showing up to 50)
| Date | Component | Crash | Injuries | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-19 | SERVICE BRAKES | No | 0 | UNKNOWN- simply picking up my kids and various alerts came on the dashboard including the ABS brakes error, Parking bra… |
| 2025-04-12 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | Rear viewing camera does not display when vehicle is placed in reverse. |
| 2025-02-05 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL | No | 0 | Vehicle manufacture (Volkswagon) has quit supplying/manufacturing a safety guidence parts for my auto. 7P6-907-217-BX-… |
| 2024-04-04 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | No | 0 | My lane assist camera is not functioning and Volkswagen is telling me the part is now obsolete and can't be repaired. I… |
| 2023-02-10 | FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | No | 0 | I was driving to lunch one day when my 2016 Volkswagen Touareg TDI stalled in the middle of the road and was not able t… |
| 2023-01-23 | SERVICE BRAKES | No | 0 | The car will stop (while driving) for no apparent reason. “Phantom Braking”. This is without any known objects/people… |
| 2022-08-01 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL | No | 0 | The windshield camera that is responsible for the imaging used for many of the system on the 2016 Touareg is a high fai… |
| 2022-06-01 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL | No | 0 | My ACC/AEB went out over 2 years ago. At the time this vehicle was out of warranty. The dealer ordered the part (came… |
| 2022-03-19 | ENGINE | No | 0 | Random engine hesitancy reducing acceleration while driving. Vehicle maintained by the dealer for all scheduled mainte… |
| 2022-02-05 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL | No | 0 | There was a big rain last week locally. I drove through a couple big puddles but nothing that's super uncommon for the … |
| 2021-11-24 | SERVICE BRAKES | No | 0 | Electronic Parking Brake lever light was flashing and dashboard showed parking brake error message. Drove car to VW Dea… |
| 2021-11-13 | FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL | No | 0 | car has a design flaw. If car sits in the sun the emergency stop braking system will fail due to heat. The camera/compu… |
| 2021-06-20 | ENGINE | No | 0 | 2016 Touareg was towed to OStein VW service after engine would not accelerate and ran rough when got onto the interstat… |
| 2021-06-01 | AIR BAGS | No | 0 | NTHSA folks, Two months ago, I began getting an "Error Airbag" amber warning in the Touareg's driver-information displ… |
| 2021-05-26 | ENGINE | No | 0 | There is an ongoing issue with the drain from the air cleaner box clogging and water collecting in the box and then bei… |
| 2021-02-13 | STRUCTURE:BODY | No | 3 | DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHED, OUTSIDE TEMPERATURE DROPPED TO 17 DEGREES. ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HEARD … |
| 2020-12-20 | ENGINE | No | 0 | VEHICLE INTERMITTENTLY LOSES POWER WHEN ACCELERATING. WOULD DESCRIBE THE FEELING AS RANGING FROM A SHUDDER OR "HICCUP" … |
| 2020-11-09 | ENGINE | No | 0 | ENGINE AIR FILTER COMPARTMENT FILLS WITH WATER UNDER NORMAL, IN-MOTION OPERATING CONDITIONS, LEAVING A SPONGY, MOLDY ME… |
| 2020-09-12 | ENGINE | No | 0 | THE VEHICLE WAS LEFT PARKED ON MY DRIVEWAY FOR 4 DAYS, DURING SO HEAVY RAINSTORMS PASSED OVER MY AREA. WHEN I WENT TO G… |
| 2020-07-23 | STRUCTURE:BODY | No | 0 | SUNROOF LEAKS AND WATER ACCUMULATES IN THE SPARE TIRE WELL PLUS GROWS MOLD MAKING THE VEHICLE UNSAFE TO DRIVE |
| 2020-06-23 | STRUCTURE:BODY | No | 0 | SUNROOF LEAKING MOISTURE INTO CAR AND VW REFUSES TO REPAIR UNDER WARRANTY. MOLD GROWING IN A ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT COUL… |
| 2020-06-16 | ENGINE | No | 0 | WATER FROM RAIN ENTERS THE AIR FILTER HOUSING WHILE PARKED OUTSIDE, AND SOAKS THE AIR FILTER AND DOESN'T DRAIN SO THE E… |
| 2020-02-29 | ENGINE | No | 0 | WATER IN ENGINE AIRBOX. NOTICED AIR FILTER SATURATED WITH WATER WHEN CHANGING AT 21,000 MILES. APPEARS TO BE A KNOWN … |
| 2020-02-08 | ENGINE | No | 0 | DUE TO A ENGINEERING FAULT WATER IS A GETTING INTO THE AIR INTAKE AND SOAKING THE BOTTOM OF THE AIR INTAKE WHERE ITS DE… |
| 2020-02-08 | ENGINE | No | 0 | WATER GETS INTO AIR TAKE SYSTEM. TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER FOR CAR WASH AND ALSO PURCHASED A AIR FILTER. CAME TO REPLAC… |
| 2019-12-10 | ENGINE | No | 0 | FAULTY AIR INTAKE SYSTEM ALLOWS WATER TO BE INGESTED. AIR FILTER BECOMES SOAKED WITH WATER, AND WILL ULTIMATELY FAIL IF… |
| 2019-11-29 | ENGINE | No | 0 | AT 18,293 MILES THE VEHICLE ENTERED "LIMP MODE" WHILE UNDER NORMAL DRIVING CONDITIONS. THE PROBLEM WAS DIAGNOSED AS THE… |
| 2019-10-10 | ENGINE | No | 0 | WHEN IT RAINS HEAVILY, MY TOUAREG AIR FILTER IS VERY EASY TO GET INTO THE WATER. I CHECKED THE INFORMATION ON THE INTER… |
| 2019-09-16 | ENGINE | No | 0 | MY ENGINE WAS DAMAGED AND BROUGHT TO THE DEALERSHIP. THE DEALER IS SUGGESTING I HAVE GOTTEN WATER IN THE INTAKE BOX AND… |
| 2019-08-07 | ENGINE | No | 0 | DROVE IN RAINSTORM AND CAR SHUT OFF AND CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP. COULD NOT START BACK UP. AFTER SERVICE INSPECTION, I … |
| 2019-07-29 | ENGINE | No | 0 | ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON AFTER DRIVING THREE MILES IN DRY WEATHER. AFTER SEEING RECALLS IN CHINA ABOUT WATER ENTERING THE A… |
| 2019-06-29 | ENGINE | No | 0 | DURING A RAIN STORM AND WITH MY WIFE DRIVING ON A BUSY NEIGHBORHOOD THROUGHWAY OUR 2016 VW TOUAREG LOST ALL POWER FROM … |
| 2019-06-18 | SERVICE BRAKES | No | 0 | 2016 VOLKSWAGEN TOUREG (VIN # XXXXXX) PURCHASED 5/25/2019. VROOM ASSURED ALL VEHICLES UNDERGO RIGOROUS INSPECTION AND… |
| 2019-06-03 | ENGINE | No | 0 | WATER IN AIR INTAKE BOX, DISCOVERED WHEN CHANGING AIR FILTER. VEHICLE HAS 12,6XX MILES ON IT. NO PRIOR OFF ROAD OR DE… |
| 2019-03-15 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | No | 0 | SINCE THE TDI FIX I HAVE EXPERIENCED TWO INCIDENTS OF POWER LOSS AND THEN THE ACTIVATION OF THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. TH… |
| 2019-02-18 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | No | 0 | AFTER LESS THAN FOUR YEARS OF OWNERSHIP, AND OUTSIDE OF THE 3 YEAR/36,000 MILE WARRANTY, THE ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL MO… |
| 2019-02-17 | ENGINE | No | 0 | AIR INTAKE WATER INGESTION BRAND NEW VEHICLE WITH ONLY 134 DEALER MILES ON IT. WENT FROM DELIVERY TRUCK TO DRIVEWAY W… |
| 2018-12-03 | ENGINE | No | 0 | WHILE READING A VW FORUM I BECAME AWARE OF A KNOWN PROBLEM WITH THE AIR FILTER HOUSING DRAIN BECOMING CLOGGED AND THE A… |
| 2018-11-25 | ENGINE | No | 0 | WHEN CHANGING AIR FILTER, THE FILTER WAS SOAKED WITH WATER AT THE BOTTOM. THE AIR INTAKE TUBE WAS FILLED WITH WATER AN… |
| 2018-09-05 | ENGINE | No | 0 | CONSTANT ISSUES WITH WATER ENTERING THE AIRBOX FROM FAULTY DESIGN. THIS CAN ENABLE PARTS OF THE FILTER TO ENTER THE EN… |
| 2018-01-22 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | No | 0 | SUNROOF EXPLODED WHILE PARKED IN DRIVEWAY. THE EXPLOSION WAS UPWARDS. THE CAR HAS A PANORAMIC ROOF AND THE FRONT SLID… |
| 2017-11-03 | SERVICE BRAKES | No | 0 | BRAKE PEDAL GOES ALL THE WAY TO FLOOR, VEHICLE WILL NOT STOP. HAS FLUID, NO WARNING LIGHTS, NO DAMAGED CABLE |
| 2016-05-24 | STEERING | No | 0 | SINCE I PURCHASED MY 2016 TOUAREG TDI IN SEPTEMBER 2015. THE STEERING WHEEL VIBRATION HAS BECOME QUITE AN ISSUE AS IT I… |
| 2015-11-16 | FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | No | 0 | AFTER DRIVING ON A SHORT TRIP. I SMELLED AND NOTICED DIESEL LEAKING FROM DRIVER SIDE FRONT WHEEL WELL. LOOKING MORE CLO… |