Cooling Fan Problems of Volkswagen Eurovan

The contact owns a 2002 Volkswagen euro van. Whenever the contact drove the vehicle at 35 mph the engine overheated. The vehicle was taken to the dealership where the contact was informed that the engine fan blades broke. The current and failure mileages were 73300.

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The contact owns a 2002 Volkswagen Eurovan. The contact noticed vibration in the steering wheel and heard a noise coming from the engine compartment. The failures would occur only when the engine was running. The cooling fan failed, but the vehicle did not overheat. The speed was unknown. The current and failure mileages were 112,000.

While traveling on a uphill paved road grade around 11 am going at a slow speed, approximately 25 mph and the blade on the cooling fan on the 2002 Volkswagen Eurovan broke off. Fan was unbalanced and began to violently shake. Engine was turned off and the fan still continued to run violently shaking the van, finally stopped and in about 5 minutes the fan turned on again violently shaking the van. Rialta has a recall for the same Volkswagen problem with fan blades separating from cooling fan. Nhtsa recall. 04v107000/Volkswagen recall no. Wb NHTSA case number pe0315 opened on April 2003 and closed August 2003. What was the final out come of the investigation? this is a on going safety issue, there are other cases posted on yahoo web site. Volkswagen issue fan warning labels (label was issued a few years ago, when I asked for date of issue vw did not have any date on record! I received this label a few years ago. ) to be affixed to the engine compartment warning of fan blade hazards. Label states "do not prop anything against radiator fan, push against them in any other way. A damaged radiator fan could break when turning at high speed and cuase seroius personal injury. See repair manual . Contacted vw corporate ,, case number has been filed) and dan wilder port angles was where van was purchased. Van was still under power train warrantly 5 yrs and 60,000 miles. Neither would tell me if fan was covered by warranty. Fan has not been repaired yet.

The contact owns a 1999 Volkswagen Eurovan. While driving approximately 50 mph, the driver side cooling fan overheated and shattered. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and the fan was replaced. The dealer did not offer an explanation as to what caused the failure. The contact saw numerous complaints on the same failure and believed it to be a safety defect. The current mileage is 53,000 and failure mileage was 50,000. Updated 08/07/07.

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Engine cooling fan on driver's (left) side broke and lost a piece, causing the fan to become unbalanced. The lack of balance caused severe vibration in the car. Car is currently in the shop for repair (replacement) of the fan.

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Radiator fan blade exploded/partially disintegrated without warning. VIN wv3ab47022h042859 had only 16000 miles on it, and no work has been done to the engine to disturb the fan blade.

Radiator fans disintegrated while driving and made a hole in radiator. This is a vw Eurovan 2002, and there was a recall on this for model years 1998-2000. Vw has refused to include mine in the recall. The repair cost $2060.

My wife, on a recent drive from no. California to southern CA noted an unusual sound from under the hood. No overheating or other issues though. When she stopped she noted one of the plastic radiator fans was broken in multiple pieces. Since she was away from home I told her to go to the local dealer for repairs. They decided the entire fan assembly had to be replaced, and that the radiator had to be replaced as well. The parts alone were about $2300 total repair for this about $2900. When they returned the car she found that the ac was no longer working. So back to the dealer. They stated the ac compressor was bad (btw the ac worked well prior to the radiator event) so the compressor and evaporator/dryer were replaced another $1200 approx. Then upon returning home to no. Cal. The ac still didn't work. Now we went to the local dealer and they stated the high and low pressure hoses to the ac were bad and needed to be replaced, parts alone $750 the dealer in long beach did kick in $300 for the labor and $150 for the freon recharge. The story continues. . . Then the ac failed again. This time I noted that the right fan was rewired improperly and running backwards. This was rewired by the oakland dealer and thus far the ac seems to be working though sometimes it is loud. The initial fan disintegration is a defect and this has lead to a constellation of problems requiring new fan, new radiator, new ac. A radiator fan should not spontaneously disintegrate at 60. 000 miles. This defect has been reported multiple time on your website and this should be a covered defect in these vehicles.

2000 Volkswagen Eurovan engine cooling fan broke apart. While driving the vehicle began to vibrate violently. The consumer pulled off to the side of the road to inspect the vehicle. Upon inspection he noticed that one of the cooling fans had broken. The consumer did some research about found out that 1998-2000 Eurovans had been recalled for the exact same problem but the consumer's vehicle was not included due to VIN.

Radiator cooling fan disintegrated and destroyed radiator.

Three times in the last 3 years (2003-2005) I have had to replace my engine cooling fans on a 2000 vw Eurovan, twice because they exploded. In each case additional damage was incurred due to the flying pieces of fan. The vw dealers (in NJ, va/FL, and PA) asserted that there was no history of this occurring, despite correspondence between vw and NHTSA in 2003.

The auxiliary fan blade on my Eurovan cracked and flew apart into several pieces. After posting on a Volkswagen website, I learned of others with the same problem. This presents a serious hazard as it could injure anyone in the vicinity when the blade breaks. Also, it clearly should not be happening on a five-year-old vehicle. However, Volkswagen has declared that it is not covered by warranty and will charge $600 to repair it. I recently saw that Jeep had a similar problem, and was wondering if it might be possible to encourage Volkswagen to consider a similar rectification.

Vehicle: 1999 Volkswagen Eurovan camper with approximately 34,000 miles. The vehicle has 2 electric radiator fans. Both plastic fan blade assemblies failed while the vehicle was underway, resulting in severe imbalance. Multiple plastic fragments were shed, which could have caused injury if it had happened while servicing the vehicle with the hood open. Both fans were replaced by a vw dealer at a cost of $962. 69. Vw service representative investigated a possible recall but said it doesn't apply to this vehicle. Failed parts are available. Nhtsa preliminary evaluation pe03015 seems to describe this same problem.

While driving at unknown speed consumer heard a loud noise coming from under the hood. Consumer pulled vehicle over to inspect engine, and noticed fragments of engine cooling fan under the hood. Dealership was inspecting the vehicle.

I am an owner of 2000 volkswagon camper owner. My engine cooling fans came apart. I would like to know why it is not recalled. In may 2004, I received from Volkswagen a sticker to put at the side of the hood for warning the engine cooling fans may cause personal injury. It was not a recall notice. On July 4 weekend, I planned with the family from san francisco to central California shaver lake for a retreat. We drive up on route 168. Suddenly we heard a loud noise from our 2000 vw camper. We ask each other what it was. We thought it might be something we hit underneath the camper. We still continued on our way. Within few minutes, another loud noises again. We know that must be something wrong with the camper. We pull to the side and I could hear a hum sound that I never heard before. I open the hood and found some hard-plastic parts near the hood. There were two fans and the noise was come from the fans. Both fans were incinerated except the center hub still spinning we have carefully watched the temperature gauge and drove to fresno, I brought to vw deal for repair in the morning but they do not have the part. We drove the camper back to san francisco on the freeway without stopping and watch the temperature gauge. I ran the internet to find out about the problem with the vw cooling fan. It had happened before. A recall was initiated in April 2004 on vw winnebago rialta, which is similar with my camper with Eurovan chassis except with wider body. The fans is enclosed with hood on top, radiator at the front, engine at the rear, plastic pan at the bottom and body chassis on both side. There is not way something will hit it and cause the damage to the fans. I glad that I did not stop and open the hood after the first noise. The second fan may break right then and the fracture parts might fly out and cause me serious injury.

The contact owns a 2002 Volkswagen Eurovan. While driving at 30 mph the vehicle stalled. The contact stated that this failure occurred on several occasions. Also, the contact stated that the generator and battery indicators remained illuminated on the instrument panel. On February 23, 2006, the engine fan was repaired on the vehicle and cost the contact $977. The dealer stated that the contact needed to pay an additional $92 for the diagnostics of the generator. The contact was issued case # 60034264 by the manufacturer. The current mileage is 37,000 and failure mileage was 15,000.

Cooling fan blade broke into pieces, causing a piece to wedge between the serpentine belt, causing lack of power inside of vehicle. Pieces of the cooling fan blade also cut the electrical wires and vacuum lines.

Driving up the mountain during afternoon and primary cooling fan self disintegrated into pieces which knock off secondary a/c fan and caused overheat. After letting engine cool off, reconnected secondary fan and continue on trip for another 30 miles, then aair conditioning fan also self disintegrated. Vehicle is a 2000 vw Eurovan conversion to winnebago rialta 2001 with 15,000 miles. If replacement are done by dealership, the same problem will continue to happen unless this fan problem are investigated by NHTSA and mandatory recall issued and replacement with better fans done by dealerships. Due to most of this disintegration happens during climbing uphill, overheating, cutting of hoses and cutting of wiring and loss of vehicle are possible, thus possess real danger for anyone which has these vehicles. Simple replacement of same type of fans will not solve the problem as it will only happen again down the road.

On June 13, 2003 both of our rialtas electric cooling fans self destructed after staring the descend down eagle ridge mountain in TN. After a few scary minutes my wife successfully navigated the RV to safety with my two young children and sister aboard. Because of the missing blades the unit continued to vibrate excessively for five minutes until it cooled down. Twenty minutes later my wife was able to restart the vehicle and everything appeared to be working in idle until the cooling fan attempted to start its cooling function again. My wife called a tennessee highway helper who stopped to look at the unit and immediately noted the missing fan blades and called for a tow. The rig was towed to vw of chattanooga tennessee who upon inspection determined it needed new fan blades which they did not have in stock. To help expedite the parts I also called dealers looking for parts. After contacting 5 vw dealers and sally eberle at vw; per your winnebago's service department recommendation, it became apparent that neither company acknowledged a historical problem with that engines designed cooling system. Mrs. Eberle mentioned that the engine is designed to automatically shut down during a cooling fan failure. Luckily this was not the case during our descend down mt eagle. After contacting many vw parts departments I was surprised to find that they normally stock a replacement fan assembly for my particular VIN number. Off the web I have also made contact to date with two other rialta owners out of six who have experienced the same problem. Two of them have concerns about the safety of their repaired rialta. 1. ) is my unit safe? 2. ) most important - has the problem been fixed???.

Our rialta 2000 hd had a catastrophic fan failure on June 6, 2003. The incident occurred in late afternoon while the temperature outside was above 100 degrees. The a/c was running full speed and we were ascending the siskiyou summit south of ashland, or. The first symptom was a thud as if we had run over something, but there had been nothing in the road. I saw what might have been a piece of one of the fans bouncing in the road behind us. Fortunately there was not a vehicle directly behind us. Any such close following vehicle could have been hit by this piece of engine debris. Within seconds we noticed the a/c failing and the engine temperature climbing. We pulled to the side of the road and turned off the engine. Hot steam was coming from under the hood. The steam was from the coolant overflowing in the coolant reservoir and contacting the hot engine. The vehicle was not drivable. One or both of the fans had flown apart. Both fans had lost all blades. Pieces of the fan were at the bottom of the engine and on top of the protective pan. The flying debris had damaged the radiator and fan bracket (fan shroud). Vw customer care said there were no records of other rialtas or euro-vans experiencing this type of failure. We have all our repair receipts. We took pictures of all the damaged parts. We kept the radiator, fan shroud, the two fans, and all pieces of fan blades we could find. At least one of the pieces of fan blade has a fracture line where it has not yet broken.

There are (2) electric motor fans which went into an overspeed condition when van was driven through high altitudes. Fans disintegrated, causing engine to overheat. Please describe details.