2022 Volkswagen ID.4

Vehicle stopped in traffic in exit lane of freeway with a line of other vehicles. Driver at-fault was traveling at freeway speeds of 65+ mph and veered into the line of vehicles waiting to exit. Our ID4 had 4 passengers, adult driver, adult passenger, and two children in rear seat, all wearing seatbelts. The seatbelt of the rear passenger's side failed resulting in child hitting their head on headrest in front of them as well as the side window and post. Moderate injuries occurred and child is recovering. None of the others in the vehicle were injured. Likely failure is pretensioner of seatbelt. Currently in the accident investigation with insurance and the component has not been inspected at this time but certainly will be.

Tires (Bridgestones) on this car prematurely disintegrate. Specifically the outer edge of the front tires are the worse. This defect is found consistently on 2021 and especially of 2022 cars made in Germany. Examples of these complaints are numerous and can be found all over car owner forums. The dealers will not help resolve and in fact usually say the tire is ‘safe’, even though chunks are falling off the tire. VW will say they don’t guarantee tires, even though they are aware the tires on these cars are defective and start falling apart at 5-8K miles. There is no recourse for us the customer than to purchase new tires at our expense. VW and the dealers are not taking the matter seriously, the worse part is misinforming people the tires are okay.

Child lock faulting resulting in imprisonment of rear occupants. No vehicle warnings documented from vehicle. This is a sporadic issue where the rear passengers become locked within the vehicle using the interior door release, the exterior door release (handle) remains operable. After multiple attempts unlocking the vehicle, as well as disengaging or cycling the child lock, from the driver controls, the rear passengers remained locked within the vehicle. I'm not sure how often this is occuring as we rarely have rear passengers. But when we do, it's usually a coin flip dealing with this situation. I have video documentation of the most recent evet (10/14/2023) where both rear doors remained locked regardless of my actions with the driver control settings. It was only after multiple cycle attempts between the child lock and door lock before the rear passengers could escape. I have few intentions in using the child lock from the driver position, however, the ID4 touch sensitive buttons are prone to accidental activation, usually by a gentle brushing of the area. Regardless if I intentionally, or accidentally, activated the child locks, they should deactivate when the driver commands it. This assuming the issue is instigated by intentional, or accidental, child lock activation. I haven't noticed a trend yet. No vehicle warnings associated with the doors. Dealer hasn't been notified about this particular issue yet, they are currently working with VW on another issue associated with cellular connectivity. The SOS function, among other voice connectivity functions, are completely inoperative at the moment.

Two days ago I was pulling into a parking spot in a shopping center. The car suddenly accelerated forward and I hit a concrete parking block. This is the third time over the past 7 months that this has occurred, where the car suddenly accelerates when in a low speed. After the first time it happened, I called the dealership to ask if any other customers had this issue, but they said no. For them to run a diagnostic on it, they would have to recreate what had occurred. We all know that is impossible. So I ignored it, as it did not happen again until three months later. Then once again two days ago.

I was slowly pulling into a parking space at the beach. Pulling into the space the car accelerated, fast. It crashed in to the two cement barriers at front of parking space. I heard the air hissing out of the right front passenger tire, as it deflated. The front of the car was badly damaged from the crash into the barriers. Luckily no one was injured or killed. This is the second acceleration problem we have experiencd. In May I had a deacceleration issue with this car. I was crossing traffic and when I pressed on the accelerator, it very slowly moved, not letting me accelerate. I was worried about the on coming traffic hitting me, but luckily they just honked and went around. Moments later Iaccelerated and the car worked normally again. We took it to the VW shop and they said they didn't find anything. That they "reset it". It had worked normally until today. The system that malfunctioned was the speed control. My safety and anyone around me was put at risk, by having a car accelerating when I didn't want it to. It's a Sunday, so don't know dealers response yet. Contacted insurance, police and will contact VW on Monday. No warning messages.

While driving approximately 35 mph, there was a "thunk". I thought I was hit from behind, but there were no cars or debris around. The dash lit up with multiple warning lights and the car lost all drive power. If this had happened on freeway it could have had a major accident. Car was towed to dealer who said there was an internal battery failure they couldn't work on. Volkswagen then made me pay for a second tow to another dealer. I am currently without the car or further reports.

The two front wheels are chipping off. My vehicle is only less than a year old. I am not the only ID4 owner who is experiencing these issues. A lot of us in Facebook ID4 owners have these issues. We think that because the ID4 is heavy due to battery cells, the front wheels cannot handle the weight of the vehicle. My milage is 12,200 miles in my car

SW lockup, leading to malfunction of speedometer display (infrequent updates, roughly once per minute). Cleared by manual reset of central display system. Tuesday July 25. I-5 between Yreka CA to Ashland OR Starting about 3:50pm in Yreka, outside temp roughly 100 degrees Stopped to charge a Electrify America Station at Yreka Walmart, 30 minutes, starting at 16% change, ending at 68%. Initial rate of charge was 78KW. Came to a stop, Park button, stepped out of car. (AC shut down per standard as I stepped out of car. Attached HVDC charging, started to charge. Stepped back into car an attempted to turn on AC. Just started attempting to start car expecting that it would complain about charging in process. Dont recall the exact process, but did end up with AC active and Charging in process. Cancelled charging via button on charging station at 30 minutes (to avoid charging fees that started after 30 minutes) disconnected charging plug, got into car and activated high power drive system. center console showed showed main charging page. Dont recall seeing standard startup VW branding screen. Attempted to press ‘Climate’ button to turn AC back on, main screen, no response, screen stayed on ‘Charging’ screen. Press other buttons on center console, no response. Time on the display was stuck at 4:20pm. Put car into Reverse, drive (B) to get back onto freeway. Expected center console to deadman timeout, reset, it did not. did try about 5 second press and hold on the center console power button, guess I should have held longer. Drove for 15 miles to rest area along freeway. Center console stayed frozen, Steering wheel display did show speed and change of state of battery charge (charge/drain bars, battery current %, speedometer, etc) Center console stayed at 68% Speedometer locked up about 10 min later, cleared by manual reset 30 min later. into VW dealer/shop Sunnyvale CA 08-02-2023, NPF. More narrative available.