By model year

Volkswagen Jetta by model year: recalls, complaints, ratings

For the Volkswagen Jetta, matched NHTSA complaint counts in this table run from 6 (2026) to 889 (2009). The complaint file is dated Oct 23, 2026. These are raw counts, not rates. A higher count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported.

ABOUT THIS DATA

The table lists raw counts from NHTSA's files. A larger complaint count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported. The counts are not divided by sales. This page does not rank one model year above another.

One row per model year. Complaint and recall figures are matched raw counts.

2000	4	439	27	14	6	Pre-2011	19–38
2001	6	668	40	12	5	Pre-2011	19–38
2002	5	702	31	71	7	Pre-2011	19–39
2003	2	456	25	70	4	Pre-2011	22–39
2004	2	231	15	20	0	Pre-2011	22–36
2005	4	248	8	14	0	Pre-2011	22–35
2006	4	580	15	6	0	Pre-2011	22–33
2007	4	201	11	7	0	Pre-2011	22–25
2008	4	188	4	4	1	Pre-2011	24–25
2009	6	889	31	8	5	Pre-2011	24–32
2010	4	852	23	5	4	Pre-2011	25–32
2011	7	607	27	9	5	4	25–32
2012	5	500	24	6	5	4	25–32
2013	4	518	12	3	3	4	25–44
2014	4	387	20	2	3	5	25–44
2015	7	194	8	1	0	5	26–44
2016	4	161	18	5	0	5	27–44
2017	6	160	18	3	0	5	27–33
2018	2	31	1	0	0	5	27–33
2019	11	549	19	3	2	5	28–34
2020	6	54	1	0	1	5	28–34
2021	4	69	3	0	0	5	28–34
2022	1	43	1	0	0	5	33–35
2023	0	43	1	0	0	5	33–35
2024	0	46	2	1	0	5	33–34
2025	2	30	4	0	0	5	33
2026	1	6	0	0	0	5	33–34
2027 · no NHTSA name match	0	0	0	0	0	5	33–34

Star columns say "Pre-2011" for older model years because those ratings use a different NHTSA method. Overall stars for 2011 and newer are the matched Safety Ratings variants. A dash means no overall star was matched.