My gear indicator lights (prnds) flash and my car either will not engage into gear or will limp. it has done it several times while driving on the highway. it will slam into a low gear causing rpm to max to 8000 and acts as if i slammed on the breaks. also the number 3 fuse on top started smoking and melted inside the fuse box. feared my car was king to catch fire.
While driving the vehicle on street roads and highways the car will shift down into a unknown gear and all lights start flashing putting the car into a neutral that doesn't fix until it's restarted.
Defective timing chain tensioner went and destroyed the entire engine that has less than 50,000 miles on it. apparently this is a known issue with vw that i found out about after the fact. luckily it happened in my driveway.