Automatic Emergency Braking problems of the 2022 Volkswagen GTI

- recurring intermittent failure of the backup camera on this vehicle. The camera intermittently turns off while vehicle is in reverse. - this has occurred numerous times while the vehicle was moving and in the presence of pedestrians and other vehicles creating a hazardous driving situation due to the sudden loss of visibility. - the dealer claimed to remedy the problem by using a software update, but the issue remains. - the component has not received inspection from any other entity or organization except for the dealer. - the car will often flash warning lights on the instrument cluster associated with all the advanced driver assistance systems. This will sometimes occur during a camera problem, but not always. Unfortunately, I have no way to view a history or log of the instances when the advanced driver assistance systems malfunctioned.

The travel assist and sos are not available error chime is a problem that many drivers experience with vw. For my most recent drive, the error chimed and distracted me for the whole duration of my trip and it causes unnecessary stress when driving.

I purchased the vehicle base in March of 2022. The sos, travel and parking assist warning lights started coming on in August 2022. I took it in for service. They kept the car for a couple of days because they didn't know how to fix the issue. Finally they were told by vw to replace the steering wheel with hope of this resolving the issue. The steering wheel was replace and the issue went away only to come back around November 2022. I took the vehicle in once again and was told that a newer steering wheel is now available and they will replace the one they put in back in August with this newer version. They however don't have an eta of when the steering wheel will become available. This was back in December when they ordered the steering wheel. It's now almost April 2023 and I haven't heard any updates on the availability of the steering wheel. The warning lights comes on every single time I drive the vehicle and it's to the point of being a nuisance because the lights come on at light 15 to 20 times and each time they come on, they omit a loud beeping noise which is driving me up a wall. I don't really drive the car because of this. Now vw is telling me that my safe and secure subscription (which expired in March 2023) needs to be paid in full in order to continue the service even though vw put out a statement stating that this feature will be free to all vw customers for 5 years. I'm basically paying $79. 50 for April and may then receiving the feature for no charge starting in June which makes zero sense. I am beyond livid at this point and voe to never purchase another vw manufactured product due to all the stress I've endured while owning this new 2022 vehicle (which should not have any issues from the start). Vw sold me a very defective product. I even had to have a new radiator install and the car only has 7k miles on it as of today (3/29/23).