diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b6f58b233..3f970c585 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: performance
 Title: Assessment of Regression Models Performance
-Version: 0.12.4.8
+Version: 0.12.4.9
 Authors@R:
     c(person(given = "Daniel",
              family = "Lüdecke",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index a181937d8..be90d0056 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 * `check_outliers()` did not warn that no numeric variables were found when only
   the response variable was numeric, but all relevant predictors were not.
 
+* `check_collinearity()` did not work for glmmTMB models when zero-inflation
+  component was set to `~0`.
+
 # performance 0.12.4
 
 ## Changes
diff --git a/R/check_collinearity.R b/R/check_collinearity.R
index a7e1299c1..1cb0b6913 100644
--- a/R/check_collinearity.R
+++ b/R/check_collinearity.R
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ check_collinearity.zerocount <- function(x,
 
 
 .check_collinearity <- function(x, component, ci = 0.95, verbose = TRUE) {
-  v <- insight::get_varcov(x, component = component, verbose = FALSE)
+  v <- .safe(insight::get_varcov(x, component = component, verbose = FALSE))
 
   # sanity check
   if (is.null(v)) {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-check_collinearity.R b/tests/testthat/test-check_collinearity.R
index d62aec75d..a3ce2b54c 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-check_collinearity.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-check_collinearity.R
@@ -218,3 +218,17 @@ test_that("check_collinearity, invalid data", {
   m1 <- lm(y ~ 1, data = dd)
   expect_error(check_collinearity(m1), "Can't extract variance-covariance matrix")
 })
+
+test_that("check_collinearity, glmmTMB hurdle w/o zi", {
+  skip_if_not_installed("glmmTMB")
+  data(Salamanders, package = "glmmTMB")
+  mod_trunc_error <- glmmTMB::glmmTMB(
+    count ~ spp + mined + (1 | site),
+    data = Salamanders[Salamanders$count > 0, , drop = FALSE],
+    family = glmmTMB::truncated_nbinom2(),
+    ziformula = ~ 0,
+    dispformula = ~ 1
+  )
+  out <- check_collinearity(mod_trunc_error)
+  expect_equal(out$VIF, c(1.03414, 1.03414), tolerance = 1e-3)
+})