Mid/rear Seats Assembly Problems of Volkswagen Beetle

Volkswagen Beetle owners have reported 4 problems related to mid/rear seats assembly (under the seats category). The most recently reported issues are listed below. Also please check out the statistics and reliability analysis of Volkswagen Beetle based on all problems reported for the Beetle.

1 Mid/rear Seats Assembly problem of the 2003 Volkswagen Beetle

Failure Date: 09/19/2018

Electrical main fuse box under hood burnt and melted into battery. See pics of burnt fuse box, and indention of melted battery. Car cut off while in motion on highway, causing my 19 year old college daughter to almost wreck in route to school last week at 8pm est. Her major is nursing. I want to make sure she's alive to see her graduate. Outside air temp was 65 degrees. This is extremely dangerous, not to mention the cost that will be associated with paying for volkswagons poor design electrical misengineering flaw, a new alternator, all electrical wiring, a new battery, and possibly new convertible top motor. Her vw is/was in mint condition with fewer than 80k miles. Vw estimates costs to fix over $5k to 6k. Kbb value is much less. My daughters life is priceless. Also, the wiring harness for the seatbelts underneath the seat are too short!! if you slide the seats back, it breaks electrical connections which triggers seatbelts light to come on, which disengages airbags to work in the event of an accident. The 2 front seats also must slide forward in order for back seat passengers to enter vehicle. Is this how vw saves money, by shortening electrical wire to connect seatbelts? perhaps it's on purpose to avoid millions of electrical lawsuits?.

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2 Mid/rear Seats Assembly problem of the 2002 Volkswagen Beetle

Failure Date: 07/09/2002

During a rear impact, my son states his seat lumbar section tilted towards the back seating area and the passenger seat (empty) tilted forward, towards the windsheild. My son litterally had to use the steering will to help pull himself back up forward.

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3 Mid/rear Seats Assembly problem of the 1999 Volkswagen Beetle

Failure Date: 08/14/2000

She was stationary inside of vehicle and heard sweaking noise last week. Driver's side seat came off track, and fell over into back seat. Consumer took vehicle to the dealership, and they were aware of problem. Vehicle has been at dealership.

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4 Mid/rear Seats Assembly problem of the 1999 Volkswagen Beetle

Front seat on driver side would go forward when put on brakes. Also, while putting in back seat of vehicle,heard a noise and seat broke. Please provide VIN.


Other Common Seats related problems of Volkswagen Beetle

Problem Category Number of Problems
Seats problems
24
Front Seat Heater/cooler problems
6
Front Seat Head Restraint problems
5
Mid/rear Seats Assembly problems
4
Front Seat Recliner problems
2
Seat Broken problems
2


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