Car Stall problems of the 2018 Volkswagen Atlas

3 weeks after we bought a pre-owned Atlas from a vw dealer, the battery died without any warning. We checked-we did not leave anything on in the car. We tried to jump start it for an hour with no luck, so I googled it. The Atlas has had many issues with its battery and many people have been stranded because of this. The battery they put in the vehicle is not powerful for this SUV, especially with the auto-start/stop feature, which permanently drains the cells of the battery so it can't be jumped. The only solution is to replace the entire battery with a new, better one. We called vw corp but they would not do a thing! issue is, vw knows about this issue and has �acknowledged� it by extending the initial battery warranty to 3 years from when it was first installed. So you have to be lucky enough to have the battery die within the first 3 years of owning the car or else you are left to pay for something that is defective and they know about. We were 3 months outside of their extended warranty, but only had the car 3 weeks! this is a safety issue: your battery could suddenly die when you're at the light of a busy intersection, in the dark, your kids in the car, etc. And you can't even turn your hazard lights on to warn other cars that your car is dead. Or you could get stranded in the mountains with no cell reception, or out in the middle of nowhere in a storm or blizzard. What's worse is vw uses the auto-start/stop as a selling feature and they do not warn you or disclose this battery issue even though they know about it! they should honestly recall all original Atlas batteries and pay to have them replaced with better ones that can hold up to the SUV and the auto-start/stop feature, which you can't turn off permanently, by the way. You'd have to turn it off manually every single time you drive it. It is unacceptable that they know about this and do nothing.

The contact owns a 2018 Volkswagen Atlas. While driving approximately 50 mph, the vehicle stalled and all the warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle did not restart. The vehicle was towed to j bertolet Volkswagen (555 rte 61, orwigsburg, PA 17961) where it had been kept since August 14, 2019. The dealer diagnosed that the vehicle needed a new engine. The contact also mentioned that the vehicle stalled one other time on February 1, 2019 while driving 25 mph. The vehicle was taken to teddy Volkswagen (3743 boston rd, bronx, NY 10466) where they kept the vehicle for three months and replaced the catalytic converter. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failures and the contact was offered half off the engine replacement price (without labor). The approximate failure mileage was 72,000.

While sitting at a red light for about a minute the car turns off due to the cars on/off feature. When the light turned green the car would not start back up. I had to put the Atlas in park and rest set to turn it on. It will not turn back on until after a few tries. This has happened to me about 5 different times now. I now drive with that feature turned off until vw can fix this glitch. Very unsafe while sitting traffic and car is stalled in the middle of the road.