This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
While driving (regardless of speed), the car will randomly unlock and lock itself. Sometimes it happens in rapid succession 2-3 times'in other instances, it'll happen just once....which is to say they'll unlock only. When this happens, I will lock the door again, and it'll unlock again. It happens to both the front drivers side and front passenger side. I haven't noticed this happened while the car is parked and there's absolutely no consistency to it. This has been occurring for the last 3 years randomly and I just recently thought to report it.
Drain tubes in the sunroof were corroded and leaking into the car. The water leak causes many electrical problems including short circuiting the passenger side airbag. The water leak is also causing lighting issues on inside of car. There is also many problems with the ESC light coming on just after it being serviced. The ESC light will come on while driving causing the car to slow down and wont let you accelerate.
Car was driven to from friends house to grandmothers house and shut car off and was visiting family for 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours. Then got in car and tried to start vehicle and the timing jumped and made a load grinding noise and wouldn't start. It bent the valves in the engine ran into the pistons. An ruined the motor. (111778 miles) had to have a new motor put in cost $7801.54.
I was on a city street in nova scotia with the family in vacation, I was driving like 50 km/H and epc light and engine light came on and on the dash board it said engine fault workshop. My car was starting to act weird, not taking speed, not changing gears my acceleration pedal was pushed at max and it seems like the car was loosing speed. I pull over on the side of the road turn engine off and wait for 4-5 min, when I star car again epc light was off only engine light remain on and no message on the board. Car seems to be good for driving. I reach at the camp ground where we wore and park the car. 20-30 min later my wife want to take a load of laundry to the camp laundry place and wash them, I give her the key for car and when she tried to start, the car wasn't starting. I unplug battery pug it back in nothing was working. I call a toe track to take the car to a VW shop in truro (vantage motors). They told me they fix the problem, they have to change a relay 460 under the driver dash and move a fuse #5 to #7 under the hood and they took the car for a test drive and everything was good, now I can come and pick the car from them 279$ bill. Because I was in a such a hurry to get back home in new brunswick I didn't check to see if car is fully operational, and I didn't have to, because they told me they took it for a test drive. Now on my way down to home I realize my fans are not working, cigarette plugs, windshield pumps on front and back, and windshield wiper on the back are not working, I call the VW shop in truro to find out what is the problem and if is a way for me to fix it.they told me it can be multiple problems to take the car when I reach home to my VW shop in St. John nb.
Apparently, the top portion of my fuse box melted when the temperatures in Chicago reached 100 degrees. The effected area controls the lighting on the right side of the car, and may also impact the power steering and traction control. Although the car is just out of warranty, this is a dangerous situation if the fuse box is not designed to withstand normal hot temperatures given that the entire car is impacted by the fuse box, loss of electronic controls in a car with computer technology that controls all of the functions of the car is a dangerous situation. Thanks....updated 09-18-13
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