2024 Volkswagen ID.4
This year drew an ordinary 48 complaints for a Volkswagen ID.4 — the model's median is 134. What they were about is the unusual part: 14.6% of them mention potential, against 3.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 48 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 134 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 107 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- potential — 14.6% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the model's other years (4.3×). Owners wrote it as: potential, fully.
- fire — 10.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (5.7×).
- advised — 10.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (5.7×). Owners wrote it as: advised, accept.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Car was charging, when we got in the car it tell is there is a potential risk of fire. Recall has not been address since last year.
The infotainment screen shuts off while driving, causing the driver display to freeze. As a result, the driver cannot access essential driving information such as speed. VW advised me to let the system rest, but this is a serious safety concern. The vehicle ha…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V750000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V643000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V651000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V125000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V434000 SERVICE BRAKES Fixed free of charge.
- 25V836000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 26V028000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 26V030000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Volkswagen ID.4 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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