Brake Sensor Problems of Volkswagen Atlas

My brake warning comes on from time to time while driving, adaptive acc warning light comes on from time to time letting me know I need to stop using it, front sensors comes on while driving letting me know I'm to close to an object while driving and there's no vehicle there or close to my SUV. This has happen on several occasions and been taken to vw service department, (vw of oakland), and was told they can't recreate the problem . Last date this happen was 01/03/24, I have video of the incident on my cell phone.

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When going up or down a steep hill, and also 1 time pulling out of a parking lot my emergency brakes have engaged 5 times. No cars have been around (luckily) and I was not about to hit anything. My collision sensors also go off daily-the entire time I'm driving even while nothing is around. I can pull up to an empty intersection and they will do off. I have tried to change the sensitivity and this still happens. They are not consistent either- the same road can make it go off one day and not the next. But they are always going off while driving and I have to exit out of the screen.

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When driving the vehicle the brakes will automatically engage slamming the car into a stand still and potentially being hit. There are sensors that activate the brakes and they go off when there is nothing around to set them off. Took the car in. They could not duplicate the problem. They called the tech assist line and they acknowledge this is an issue that they have heard of but will do nothing about it. They say if the brakes slam on then the sensors are working. This was happening to my car daily and I honestly was afraid to drive the car. This is a total safety issue for your car to slam on the brakes for no reason in an unsafe location. I have turned the maneuver braking off but I paid a lot of money for that feature that does not work safely. I also get other random warning lights that go off for no reason. They plug it in to look for codes and nothing shows up so they do not feel there is a problem to address.

Automatic braking system deploys without cause. Situation: driving on interstate, no cars within a half mile, going 75 with acc and breaks automatically slammed on with a collision warning. Sensor and car were clean, no cars or possible impacts. This has happened 3-4 times. Additional situations: acc turns off both on interstate and on long highway bridge. Situations were different, both day and night time/ with other cars and without. All situations had no possible chance of impact. Acc will turn off while car is going in 50-70 mph range and suddenly break, in the middle of the road, without any warning. Dealership responded "nothing is perfect" this has now happened roughly 7 times, with no advice from the dealer other than to "see if I can just turn the assistance systems off. " they were not able to see my car immediately when I took it in after the braking incident today and have scheduled me for a later date.

My 2018 vw Atlas brake sensors that activate when they see something that may cause a crash slamming the brakes on. That would be good if it was reasonable but what happens is the brakes slam on just driving out of a driveway!! I have taken it to vw and they can't do anything because it was within the design settings. It always does it when you least expect it so when pulling out of a driveway it is a crap shoot whether it will activate the brakes or not, and it is going to cause a accident because you don't know when or where it is going to happen. I wrote a complaint at car complaints. Com and I saw several other people having the same problem. I worry about the snow and what would happen it is a very unsafe condition please help with getting vw to fix this issue. Thank you, steve urry.

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When exiting a driveway into traffic, if there is a decline or hill, the automatic breaking causes the car to stall in the middle of the road. This has happened several times now in 2 different places. The sensors start beeping and the car will shut down where you have no control. You have to put the car back in gear and restart the engine. This is very dangerous. I let the service department at vw in devon know and they said they couldn't find anything wrong with it after running diagnostics.

Upon accelerating my 2019 vw Atlas down an empty street between 10 to 20 miles per hour the autonamous emergency brake sensor malfunctioned and the car suddenly came to a complete stop jolting us forward. It was so unexpected that my hands slipped off the steering wheel and landed on the dash board. The halt came with a very loud noise. As I explained to the dealership technician and vw corporate office regional case manager, there was no vehicle in front of me. There were no pedestrians, animals, obstacles, etc. On the roadway. The day was sunny and the grill emblem that houses the system sensor was unobstructed and clean. If there would have been a vehicle behind me I would have been rear ended. The dealership told me that "they could not duplicate the issue" and per corporate engineers the sensor is working per specifications and no fault codes were found with the sensor. Imagine receiving this explanation after that scary incident happens to you out of no where. Now I can't get back into the vehicle without thinking when it will happen next. Too have written a letter to the ceo of Volkswagen seeking a resolution to the problem. My thought is that it's a problem with the sensor's software code and Volkswagen doesn't have a solution. Please I ask that this issue be investigated and a recall be issued. The internet has info on other owners with same issue along with a class action lawsuit filed in California against vw for the same issue. Thank you.

While driving yesterday I was exiting a shopping plaza on a city street and turned right and my car completely stopped in the middle of traffic. Many cars were coming and had to slam on their breaks thankfully avoiding a collision. This is because of the maneuver breaking sensors. I drive and constantly hear beep beep beep from them sensing something, when in fact nothing is even near my car. This is a serious flaw. Please do a recall ASAP to fix this.

Was driving down my driveway and the electronic brake all of a sudden malfunctioned and turned on, and locked up all movement. The system was screaming electronic brake malfunction, do not drive, brake is activated. I was able to eventually put it back up near my house in the parking portion of the driveway. This is not the first time that the brake has malfunctioned however it is the first time that it has done it while I was driving, normally I can turn off the car wait about 5 minutes or so and then it'll stop malfunctioning however this time the brakes locked up and the car would not move. I could not get the brake to turn off. Had the car towed to the dealership (still showing a malfunction after vehicle was off all day). At the dealer for several days, they said they could not replicate the incident and the car does not keep a log of malfunctions internally so there was nothing to be done. I have a long list of problems with sensors, camera systems, and other electronic failures going back through August 2018.

The autonomous breaking system and pediatrian warning sensors are malfunctioning making my car unsafe to drive. Since it's purchase in January 2018, the brakes have locked up at least 10 times under normal driving conditions. I can re-create the problem when I am moving slowly on an uneven road surface. In addition, as I slow down to approach a stop sign or a red light, the alarms go off suggesting that there is something in the roadway at least half of the time. I have been told by my local vw service station that there are no errors being recorded by the car's system that can be corrected and at this time all Atlas cars that they have tested on the lot are having doing the same thing. They were able to recreate the auto-braking on a hill on their lot, but have no way to stop it from happening. On Saturday, 8/18/2019 while I was slowly pulling out of a local shopping center, making a left hand turn down an incline the car brakes locked up after I entered the active roadway- as a result I was nearly t-boned by a car that had just make a right hand turn onto the same roadway. By the grace of god, that driver was moving slow enought to stop. I immediately called vw car net, I was connected to my dealer, and they took the car in for inspection. As I mentioned above, after 5 days they were not able to resolve the problem. I have initiated a complaint with vw of America and am writing to tell you that I do not feel safe driving a car that will stop me in the middle of a road way. I do not want my family to be the victims of a preventable accident and want this problem fixed before there is a catastrophe for me or another Atlas owner. Please me know have other information I can give you so that you can properly investigate this problem.

Tl the contact owns a 2018 Volkswagen Atlas. The contact stated that the brake booster failure indicator illuminated. Shortly after, the brake pedal went up and down on its own and had to be depressed with full force in order to stop the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to neftin westlake Volkswagen (3550 auto mall dr, thousand oaks, CA 91362) on two different occasions where they replaced the low pressure sensor for the brake booster and the vacuum hose. The manufacturer was contacted. The vehicle was repaired. The failure mileage was 13,039.

Automatic braking system is faulty. When I pull out of driveways or parking lots the sensors are activating and the maneuver braking is applied and the car comes to an abrubt stop in the middle of the road. Everytime this has occured there has not been an object or car present. This system is faulty and dangerous. I have 3 children in the back seat and this makes me very concerned for their safety when I drive this vehicle. Vw service is looking into the issue and has given me a loaner Atlas that is doing the exact same thing. I have a video of the issue occuring.

The auto braking and warning sensors go off when you are driving from an inclined driveway to a roadway. This has happened to us multiple times, the most recent was on 7-2-2018, and it brings the vehicle to a complete stop. This is supposed to be a safety feature that was an extra cost, but this is going to cause a crash if not rectified. I have taken the vehicle in for this issue, and multiple other issues and all I get back is � system is performing as designed. � if the system is performing as designed, the system needs to be changed. This is without a doubt a safety issue in itself. There are multiple other owners on message boards that are having the same issues and having the same answers from the dealerships. On one of the message boards, there is actually a video of the vehicle coming to a complete stop driving from a bank parking lot to a main road.

I bought a vw Atlas 2018 expecting the front assist feature, whereby if the SUV detects an obstacle in its path, it will engage the brakes to stop the vehicle and avoid a collision. Unfortunately I am experiencing a situation where the feature could cause a collision. From conversations with vm service, the sensor that detects obstacles points from the grill, directly out, and parallel to the road. When driving on a down slope that levels out, the sensor will detect the road, and, assuming it is an obstacle, engage the brakes to stop the vehicle to avoid collision. At speeds >10mph, there is no detection. But, I discovered (multiple times) that entering traffic from a car park creates the down angle, and (because its is essential to drive slowly exiting a car park to fully observe the oncoming traffic) the speed whereby the feature engages and stops the SUV. In multiple occasions this has stops us in incoming traffic, with the real possibility of a drivers side collision. I had started to disable the front assist feature but discovered this must be done on every trip, and of course (a) sometimes this is forgotten and (b) others driving the SUV may not remember or even know. I feel that this feature (acknowledgedly a great safety feature when driving on a level road), is actually a potential collision hazard when driving in the conditions described above.

I have had this car two months and it has now been in service twice. As of today they have had it for two weeks. The autonomous break system is way too sensitive and the car stops going down steep inclines or going over pot holes while in motion. The car has stopped in the middle of driving at least 7 times. I take it to service, they say there is no record in the cars computer of the incident. The front sensors are always beeping. I pull up to a stop sign, the sensors go off. I do a u-turn and the sensors go off. Some days way too excessively, some days not at all. It scares me to death and I slam on my brakes because I am afraid I am going to hit something. I take it to service, they say there is no record of it in the cars computer. Front end collision alert, I was driving down the road and was the only one on the road and the front end collision alert went off. I of course slam on the brakes in the middle of the road with no traffic, thank god no one was behind me. I take it to service, they say there is no record in the cars computer of it. Service has been able to recreate the issue with the front sensors, but says there is no fix. The customer care rep for vw stated today on the phone that they recognize there is an issue with the sensitivity of the autonomous breaking but has no fix for it so I will have to deal with it. I live in houston, I will die if I hit a pot hole and stop. It's unacceptable and a huge safety hazard. I am reading all over the internet about this issue with the autonomous braking problems. It should not be allowed to continue. Someone is going to die. I was able to video the issue with the sensors and vw has the video and recognizes a problem but states that's just the way the car is going to work. States they see the issue there too, but there is no fix.

When descending an incline at slow speed to turn onto a roadway the sensor perceives the road as an obstacle which causes the car to auto-stop partially in the road. I then have to disengage the emergency brake and begin again. This is totally unsafe. It has happened 10 times when leaving my own driveway.