Automatic Transmission Gear Indicator problems of the 2009 Volkswagen GTI

My prnds lights flashing. When I put car in d or r nothing happens. Acts like its in neutral. Happened while driving 65mph on why. Fix this problem now.

My car was purchased approximately 3 weeks ago. I first noticed an issue during the first week when around 20 minutes into my journey on the florida turnpike at 70 mph where my Gti's rpm's suddenly swung around to the top for about 2 seconds, I did not notice a loss of power due to the time. This happened again the following week at exactly the same spot! my husband was then driving the vehicle 2 days later (the date listed as incident date), we were in traffic with foot on brake when car jumped and dashboard prnds lights all flashed around 5-6 times. The following day, about 20 minutes into journey at 40 mph, the car disengaged gears and rpm counter went up to top again - perhaps 2-3 seconds. We decided to take car to dealership the next day (Monday Aug 10), (the car did the same thing again on the way). We were called that day to say that they could not duplicate the issue. The next day, we were told that an inquiry was open with vw tech and called later to say it was a sensor issue and would be 2-3 days. On the Thursday evening, I was called to say it was a megatronic unit and would be 30 days - I requested a new car as I had only had this for 3 weeks and was told a manager would call me on Friday. The same service consultant called me on Friday and said they had worked late with vw tech and decided that it was not megatronic but a temperature sensor. The car remains at the dealership and I have been told it should be ready next Friday. I am not sure that the dealership or vw tech are sure themselves what this problem is.

At the time of the incident I had been driving for about 20 minutes in moderate traffic on a city street. I stopped at a red light nb at a busy 5 way intersection on a curve. The gear selector was in d. When the light turned green I applied the gas pedal lightly and the car did not move forward. The engine rpms increased but the car made no forward progress. I then attempted to put the car in neutral and back into drive. Also I put the car into s and tiptronic modes as well. None of these actions produced any effect. The only change that I noticed was that the lighted gear indicators next to the shifter flashed "prnds". Because I was on a curve traffic approaching from the rear was not able to see me. As a result I activated the hazard flashers. Cars were having to drive around me but fortunately a man in a pickup parked behind me and helped me push my car out of the lane of traffic. After getting the car into a safe spot I turned it off and upon restarting the car it functioned normally.

I purchased my 2009 vw Gti in August of 2008 and have been using it as my daily driver since its purchase. Not knowing the technicalities and specifications of the dsg transmission I drove the car as usual until after having the car for 2 or 3 months when I went to start the car the prnds was flashing in the dash and the key would not turn to unlock (I could attempt to start it though) nor would it remove from the ignition. After 3 failed attempts to start it I got out of the car and returned an hour later to start it and it worked without any problems. I made an appointment with my dealer and they "fixed the issue" my replacing a magnetic sensor in the triptronic unit. I drove the car as usual for a few months and everything was fine (or so I thought). I had a friend ride with me who owns another vw with a dsg transmission and he commented on how bad the shifts were and how it rode bad, so I began to investigate the issues (this being the only dsg car I have driven I did not know my car was driving bad). Turns out the car had a faulty mechatronic unit that was causing my car to have rough shifts, "lurching" motions while in 1st gear and reverse, and then would feel as though the car was going to stall and cut out. I had become accustomed to driving the car as such and had to take extra precautions when parallel parking so my car wouldn't "lurch" and hit the car on either side while parallel parking. . Read more...