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3 recalls affect this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.
Volkswagen is recalling 2020 Passat vehicles because the passenger air bag may deploy with excessive force, increasing injury risk.
Volkswagen is recalling 2012-2020 Passat and 2018-2019 Atlas vehicles because a missing blocking cap allows headlight aim to be adjusted out of specification, increasing crash risk.
Volkswagen is recalling 2019 Atlas and 2020 Passat vehicles because incorrect side air bags may have been installed, potentially failing to deploy in a crash.
Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.
Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.
Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.
1,565 manufacturer service bulletins across 18 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.
This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.
Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.