Volkswagen Beetle 2012–2020 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SM 61-2020 · NHTSA communication 10182510 · issued Nov 4, 2020
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2012–2020
model years
28
vehicle entries
Official summary
This special notice is to inform dealers to return the part numbers listed and order the superseded part numbers.
Vehicles covered
- 2012 Volkswagen Beetle
- 2013 Volkswagen Beetle
- 2014 Volkswagen Beetle
- 2015 Volkswagen Beetle
- 2016 Volkswagen Beetle
- 2017 Volkswagen Beetle
- 2018 Volkswagen Beetle
- 2019 Volkswagen Beetle
- 2013 Volkswagen Golf
- 2014 Volkswagen Golf
- 2015 Volkswagen Golf
- 2016 Volkswagen Golf
- 2017 Volkswagen Golf
- 2018 Volkswagen Golf
- 2019 Volkswagen Golf
- 2020 Volkswagen Golf
- 2015 Volkswagen Jetta
- 2016 Volkswagen Jetta
- 2017 Volkswagen Jetta
- 2018 Volkswagen Jetta
- 2013 Volkswagen Passat
- 2014 Volkswagen Passat
- 2015 Volkswagen Passat
- 2016 Volkswagen Passat
- 2017 Volkswagen Passat
- 2018 Volkswagen Passat
- 2019 Volkswagen Passat
- 2020 Volkswagen Passat
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.