# Service bulletin V4016012043146\_4

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 11026184
- Published by NHTSA: 2025\-12\-05
- Manufacturer's number: V4016012043146\_4
- Manufacturer's date: 2025\-11\-18
- NHTSA component: SUSPENSION

## NHTSA's summary

What is and what is not a leaking suspension strut.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2025/MC-11026184-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2025/MC-11026184-9999.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Suspension

## Vehicles listed

- 2019 to 2023 VOLKSWAGEN ARTEON
- 2018 to 2025 VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS
- 2020 to 2025 VOLKSWAGEN ATLAS CROSS SPORT
- 2009 to 2010 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE
- 2012 to 2019 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE
- 2009 to 2010 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE CONVERTIBLE
- 2013 to 2019 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE CONVERTIBLE
- 2009 to 2011 VOLKSWAGEN CC
- 2012 VOLKSWAGEN CC
- 2013 VOLKSWAGEN CC
- 2014 to 2017 VOLKSWAGEN CC
- 2015 to 2019 VOLKSWAGEN E\-GOLF
- 2009 to 2016 VOLKSWAGEN EOS
- 2010 to 2021 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF
- 2015 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R
- 2016 to 2019 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R
- 2022 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R
- 2024 to 2025 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R
- 2015 to 2019 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF SPORTWAGEN
- 2022 to 2024 VOLKSWAGEN GTI
- 2025 VOLKSWAGEN GTI
- 2009 to 2025 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA
- 2009 to 2014 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA SPORTWAGEN
- 2009 to 2010 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT
- 2012 to 2020 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT
- 2022 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT
- 2009 to 2010 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT WAGON
- 2009 to 2010 VOLKSWAGEN ROUTAN
- 2022 to 2025 VOLKSWAGEN TAOS
- 2009 to 2025 VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN
- 2009 to 2017 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [25V434000](/recalls/nhtsa/25V434000.md), 2025-06-30: SERVICE BRAKES; SUSPENSION
- [2025355](/recalls/tc/2025355.md), 2025-06-25: Suspension
- [2022612](/recalls/tc/2022612.md), 2022-10-26: Suspension
- [22V807000](/recalls/nhtsa/22V807000.md), 2022-10-26: SUSPENSION:CRITICAL FASTENERS
- [2022132](/recalls/tc/2022132.md), 2022-03-23: Suspension
- [22V176000](/recalls/nhtsa/22V176000.md), 2022-03-23: SUSPENSION
- [21V812000](/recalls/nhtsa/21V812000.md), 2021-10-15: WHEELS:LUGS/NUTS/BOLTS/STUDS; SUSPENSION:FRONT:WHEEL BEARING
- [2019619](/recalls/tc/2019619.md), 2019-12-11: Suspension
- [2019116](/recalls/tc/2019116.md), 2019-03-06: Suspension
- [19V188000](/recalls/nhtsa/19V188000.md), 2019-03-06: SUSPENSION:REAR:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SM 04\-2026](/bulletins/11029306.md), 2026-03-03, Other: SUSPENSION. This special notice is to inform dealers to return the parts listed and only order the successor parts going forward.
- [V4418012043620\_9](/bulletins/11027256.md), 2026-01-07, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION. Alignment Submission Form
- [V4616012043146\_3](/bulletins/11021372.md), 2025-08-05, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION. How to identify and when to replace a leaking strut
- [V4019012028353\_12](/bulletins/11016583.md), 2025-04-04, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION. Front suspension noisy, spring rubs on strut perch.
- [441307](/bulletins/10244074.md), 2023-10-16, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION. Supersedes T.B. V441306 dated November 22, 2013 to change Service Number from 4440 to 4405. For information on Alignment, please see Tech Tip 44 13 03 ? Alignment Overview.
- [Edition107](/bulletins/10243018.md), 2023-10-02, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:INFOTAINMENT; SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP:WHEEL SPEED SENSOR/TONE RING; FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; SUSPENSION; EQUIPMENT. VW Elsa Newsletter
- [Edition87](/bulletins/10243012.md), 2023-10-02, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. VW Elsa Newsletter
- [Edition92](/bulletins/10243007.md), 2023-10-02, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION; FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE. VW Elsa Newsletter
- [Edition90](/bulletins/10243005.md), 2023-10-02, Service bulletin: STEERING; SUSPENSION; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER. VW Elsa Newsletter
- [Edition41](/bulletins/10242398.md), 2023-09-18, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION; EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP. VW Elsa Newsletter

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