At 32,000 miles the clutch started slipping. even though covered under warranty i was told my my local vw dealer and by vw of america that they would have to pull the car apart to determine if it is covered. if they determine it is normal wear and tear it won't be covered and i'm out $1100 for the diagnostic. meanwhile the vw forums i've been on pinpoint a weak clutch pressure plate (design flaw) as the source of the slipping. that makes sense since i've never had a clutch slip in my previous 6 manual transmissions and two of those vehicles made it to over 200,000 miles. there is no way a clutch should give up at 32,000 miles. the slipping occurs while accelerating in a high gear with 4 people in the car. it just started this week, but is already getting worse. neither the dealer or vwoa could tell me the criteria they use to determine if a clutch is covered, but the nice vwoa representative told me that short of the clutch failing in the first year they rarely cover the failure. so i'm left with a warranty that isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
Vehicle pauses for up to 5 seconds when attempting to accelerate across an intersection or while attempting to pass another car on the highway. this failure happens sporadically whether on a public street or highway. i never know when it will occur but have almost been hit by other vehicles several times.
3 times car popped out of 3rd gear while car was in motion, nothing in particular brought this on (no bump in road, etc), car has less than 7k miles, brought to vw dealership and after driving it only two miles, they said they would not even inspect the transmission because they couldn't recreate the problem. now the issue is that sometimes i can't get the car into 3rd gear. contacted ne vw regional manager because i wanted it in writing that they were refusing to service the car. though i was told i would be sent a letter, i've received nothing more than a month later. other problems i have with the car include the turn signal sometimes not turning off right away-sometimes it blinks right, blinks left and then finally turns off after 1 min or so and the driver's side window would not go up when weather was hot this past summer.
This car continues to sporadically go in reverse while i am in drive. this has happened while waiting in like at a drive through, foot on break while in drive while waiting for food, then told to pull up only to nearly back into the car in line behind me. had to put car in park and shut off engine- restart to correct problem. has happened while foot on break at red light while in drive, took foot off break when light turned green - car went into reverse while drive shaft "d" still lit up almost backing into car behind me. and again this happened while backing up in my apartment parking lot, put car into reverse to back out, break, when to put car into drive and car went into reverse. each time the car has went into reverse while in drive i have had to turn off the car completely and restart to correct the problem. this is a huge safety hazard and threatening to my car, my safety, and other drivers. dealership cannot recreate problem and says therefore there is no problem, vw customer care is no help either as they simply keep telling me to take it back to the dealership.
2016 jetta se1.4 new for 18 year old son for college. within a week car was in the shop with electrical issues for lighter and usb shorting out phone + radar while the car was driving. no issue found we drove 1000+miles to school, center console would blink on and off during the trip. new dealer also did not find any issues. car then started shutting off while driving under 5 mph in traffic in nyc. when coming out of the driveway the rear view camera turned off, the car turned off. vw was called they had him turn off the power by holding the pushbutton and break which restarted the car. new dealer still no issue found. the car continues to loose power all except auxiliary several incidents very unsafe. was going up a hill and the car shifted into neutral and started rolling back, applied the handbrake the back wheels locked and the car stopped thankfully it was at night and no traffic. two days later at jfk in the arrival line the car shut off while creeping forward. took it to another new dealer they kept the car for one week, no issue found. issues continued now including slipping out of gear revving to 8000rpm, having to push far down for the brake to engage. all the lights turn off while driving intermittently very unsafe. took it to new dealer they found no issue i refused to pick it up and called vw corp they had them drive the car for 50 miles finally an error message. they replaced the transmission solenoid. it is still having issues.the car overheated and the electrical stopped working. he smelled the coolant threw the vents he was about to pull over when the car revved to 8000 rpm and dropped out of gear so he pulled over and slowed down the lights and radio turned off. when he looked the exhaust manifold was glowing red. the car took an hr to cool down and electrical to come back. back to the dealer again no issues again called vw corp for complaint. *tr
2016 volkswagen jetta with 1.8 l.turbo engine with automatic transmission. after totally stopping car at an intersection and then applying a little throttle the car will start moving out into intersection, but if i have to let off on throttle after starting out in intersection for one reason or another the engine will not respond and for a few seconds, it will not move leaving me dead in the intersection without any response. engine is still running but car will not move for a few seconds. no response from the throttle.i took it into vw dealer in saint george utah on !!/2/2016 and had them check it out. the manager drove the car and said it was okay no problems. this problem does not happen all the time, but when it does occur it is a dangerous situation. mechanics at vw were aware of the problem but could do nothing about it . they said it was a design flaw in the transmission.these cars should be recalled before someone gets killed in them. this problem has happened to me about a dozen times. these cars are to dangerous to drive and should be taken off the roads.