Five problems related to transmission slip out of gear have been reported for the 2006 Volkswagen Jetta. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2006 Volkswagen Jetta based on all problems reported for the 2006 Jetta.
Defective dual mass flywheel should have a safety recall also the mechatronics units are failing and causing major transmission problems. Dropping out of gear while driving, dropping into a lower gear while driving causing major issues and vw knows about it! their claim is thathere is no recall so nothing is being done!!!!! please help, had transmission problems when in warranty and nothing was done.
Transmission shifting problem. The transmission was not controlling at any nominal cruising speed, or when accelerating from a stop. Safety concern. Car was shifting when it didn't need to shift, I. E. Out of 6th at high speeds when the terrain and speed hadn't changed. It would shift out of gear the way you do in a manual transmission, but instead of shifting back in immediately, it would hesitate (rpms drop significantly) so that the car was essentially idling between gears. Then it would shift back in to a gear for a few seconds, and then shift again inappropriately with the same hesitation. When it would shift back in sometimes it would do the hard shift. The check engine light came on at times but not always. The car couldn't seem to figure out what gear it needed to be in, and it kept shifting in and out of the higher gears even though the driver hadn't changed the speed and the terrain was the same. It was much worse during the heat of the day. Whereas the problem is hardly perceptible at night. Still it seemed to be shifting between 6th down to 5th when it didn't need to. The problem seems to repeat over and over. The check engine light came on at some point, but was not on this morning.
In the morning I went to start my car and I shifted it into reverse and there was a loud noise. I then went to drive it and the transmission would not shift out of third gear.
The contact owns a 2006 Volkswagen Jetta. The contact stated that the vehicle would not shift out of first gear. The vehicle was towed to an authorized dealer and they were in the process of diagnosing the failure. The manufacturer was not contacted. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileages were 66,783. The VIN was unavailable.
My 2006 vw Jetta tdi has a dsg transmission. This transmission has slipped out of gear twice while traveling on the interstate at interstate speeds. This is an automatic type transmission and should not be slipping out of gear. This has not resulted in an accident but I was required to move across 3 lanes of traffic only under my current forward momentum. Luckily I was able to do so without incident.