Manufacturer file
What the Volkswagen records can tell us
The Volkswagen file currently stops at 6 nameplates: Atlas, Golf GTI, Jetta, Tiguan, ID.4, Taos. Those 50 model-year entries contain 6,931 owner complaints. The missing denominator matters because these records do not say how many vehicles were on the road.
Electrical System appears most often in the component tags, with 1,781 mentions. A single complaint may carry several tags. I use the total as a prompt to read that system's contract terms, not as odds that a repair will happen.
Across the same model years, NHTSA records show 258 recall campaigns and 22,899 manufacturer communications. Recall repairs are handled separately from a paid service contract, while communications include far more than defects.