2025 VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 — Complaint #2172871
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NHTSA Complaint about BACK OVER PREVENTION: WARNINGS filed February 3, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2172871 (ODI reference 11715309) concerns a 2025 VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 and was filed on February 3, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 20, 2025. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as back over prevention: warnings, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: yes, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 cohort independently describe similar back over prevention: warnings failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2025 VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
On 6/20/25, while pulling into a parking space at very slow speed, the car suddenly, without my control, violently accellerated. This could have resulted in pesonal injury or death. The car was stopped by crashing into two, nearby parked cars. The dealer's collision shop repaired the car at a cost of approximately $17,000. They did not provide an explanation of the possible cause. There were no warning signs of an issue prior to the event.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2172871 |
| ODI Number | 11715309 |
| Date Filed | February 3, 2026 |
| Failure Date | June 20, 2025 |
| VIN | 1V2WSPE83SC |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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