2023 VOLKSWAGEN TAOS — Complaint #2178295
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES filed February 18, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178295 (ODI reference 11718960) concerns a 2023 VOLKSWAGEN TAOS and was filed on February 18, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 18, 2026. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, 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: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. 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 TAOS cohort independently describe similar service brakes 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 2023 VOLKSWAGEN TAOS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Rear brake pads needed replaced at 16,000 miles and need replaced again at 50,000. VW refuses to replace them or address the issue since the car is no longer under warranty.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178295 |
| ODI Number | 11718960 |
| Date Filed | February 18, 2026 |
| Failure Date | February 18, 2026 |
| VIN | 3vvnx7b21pm |
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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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