Hood Latch Problems of Volkswagen Golf

The contact owns a 2006 Volkswagen Golf. While driving approximately 55 mph, the hood of the vehicle unlatched without warning and shattered the windshield. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the windshield, hood, and other unknown components needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and stated that they were unwilling to pay for the repair. The approximate failure mileage was 130,000.

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While I was driving on I-35 in kansas at about 60 mph on December 13, 3007 at approximately 10:30 pm, the latch to my vehicle released without warning and caused the hood of my vehicle to fly up impairing my view. I was able to pull over to the shoulder of the highway and called the kansas highway patrol. The highway patrol officer pushed down on the hood but was unable get the hood to latch. Due to the failure of the hood latch my hood has been damaged. I checked your website for complaints for the same year, make, and model and discovered this defect had happened previously to the same vehicle.

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Got transmission work done on 9/19/06. Pick car up that evening and drove home on city streets. On 9/20/06 got on freeway to go to work and accelerated to 55 mph at which time the hood snapped back against the windshield. Had car towed to dealership where the service work was done. Said the problem with the hood was due to a faulty/failed hood latch. Dealership replaced the hood and installed a new hood latch.

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: the contact stated that recall # 98v160000, which refers to the hood latch, applied to the vehicle. However, the service dealer refused to perform the recall. After speaking with the service manager, the contact called the manufacturer, who referred the contact back to the service dealer.

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The hood latch failed resulting in the hood flipping up and shattering the windshield and damaging the front fenders and hood.

While driving 55 mph the vehicle's hood flew up without warning. As a result the windshield glass was shattered. Please provide additional information.

I was driving on the highway going approximately 55 mph when the hood on my 1999 vw Golf unexpectedly opened and hit the windshield with a degree of impact that dented the hood in several places and the hood will no longer close. I was forced to brake immediately because I could not see. The cars behind me swerved to prevent hitting me. The hood appeared to be securely shut prior to this incident. I researched the NHTSA recall history and found that it indicates that vw issued a recall of 93-96 Golf, Golf gti and jetta (98v-160) due to the bolts securing the front hood latch loosening over time and causing disengagement of hood striker from latch and possible unexpected opening of hood. Wondering if something similar may have been the cause of what happened to me I called vw us and made a complaint with dylan dunbar on may 10th 2004 and was told to take the car to a vw dealership and have them diagnose what the cause of the incident was - a malfunction / defect or "something I need to speak to my insurance company about". It seems like a conflict of interest on the part of vw to have vw to determine if they or responsible or not.

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Consumer took car to dealer for recall repairs, and dealers did not have parts available.

Prior to recall hood latch failed (98v-160). Yh.