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Volkswagen Atlas 2022

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

2.38 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 150 complaints filed in the first three years, of 258 ever. 95% lower bound 2.00.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2018	3.32	198
2019	1.61	114
2020	0.77	54
2021	4.57	301
2022	2.38	150
2023	1.89	108

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Service Brakes 70 complaints

grinding	35	50%
sounds	12	18%

Engine 69 complaints

manually	17	25%
start stop	12	18%
put park	12	18%

Electrical System 65 complaints

infotainment

20%

When it breaks

38% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 42,000 miles, from 21 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign.

Inadvertent Automatic Emergency Braking

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

11443700 · 11449496 · 11451077 · 11452125 · 11453891 · 11456760

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.