Diesel Engine problems of the 2010 Volkswagen Jetta

Vw tdi engine: a poorly designed diesel engine particulate filter (pf). Vw is irresponsible in designing, selling and supporting repairs to this item. Cost for 100k scheduled maint. For timing belt and other pm work @ $3,127, pf is expected to fail between 90k and 130k miles and is on record to be a pm replacement part in the service manuals. Check engine light started coming on at 90k miles. My mechanic reset light twice. I eventually took it to vw and gave them a copy of the service bulletin, provided by mechanic. Vw insisted it was both exhaust pressure sensors at $607 this was wrong, light on in 4 days. Cost to replace the pf is $6. 2k. At 100k miles this car has cost me $9,863 for vw schld. Maint. . Repairs that vw recommends to be done to this car. Vw customer relations said nothing they can do and suggested I go to NHTSA. 1. Vw advertised tdi engine as the cleanest emissions in the world! 2, we expected pay-off through excellent gas mileage and low cost ownership. At 100k miles a deisel should just be breaking in. Results of vw selling the vehicle and not supporting its customers: a. Vw has stuck me with a car I can not sell or take a dump on resale. Who wants to buy a car with a check engine light on? b. I keep cars and keep them maintained so I get high mileage out of them. Even if I did the pf repair at $6k I would be looking to do it again at 200k miles. There is no value to cost of ownership of this car!! c. I could go to my mechanic and reset the check engine light and sell this car near resale. Unfortunately the VIN no. Is on record with this issue. Nor do I have the conscience to do that. Vw is an irresponsible car manufacturer!!!!. How can you sell a car that requires his much scheduled repair work??? vw you have screwed me and your customers!.

Ice in the air intake caused the engine to vapor lock which caused a bent piston rod. Dealer is going to remove the factory air intake after installing a new engine under warranty and claims this is an engineered fix. Dealer also said that Volkswagen is working on some heater add on in the possible future. I suspect that the current fix is not a fix as the trouble was not when driving it was after the car set for a few days and ice formed in the intake. Nhtsa should investigate to confirm the engineering issue is addressed correctly to protect consumers.

I purchased a 6-speed manual transmission Jetta-tdi at the end of December of 2009. I have been driving manual transmission cars since 1975, and I was upset that my car was stalling either just starting out in first or in the lower rpm range of the lower gears when turning and moving through intersections or trying to go uphill when the rpms were in the lower range. Keeping the rpms up a bit seems to have helped, as I am not having it stall as much as before. I also noticed what seemed like a slight hesitation or jerking when cruising . It would be just for a split second and then be gone my accident occurred when I was parallel parking on a hill. I went to back up a bit to straighten out my car and it stalled, rolling forward into the car parked in front of me. Fortunately, no one was injured. Damage was minor, but was submitted to my insurance company. At this point I was just blaming myself for not being able to adjust to the difference of clutching with a diesel engine because I couldn't figure out how to explain it. Then a heard 2 radio reports about the complaints being filed. I called vw of America who listened to my story. They told me that in order to be compensated for my accident, that I would have needed to have had the car towed immediately to a dealership and had it diagnosed. She suggested that I take it to be diagnosed. I took it to the dealer who kept it for two days and could not find anything wrong. A week later, I was coming to a stop for a red light and the rpms began to fluctuate like it was going to stall and then it would come back to normal rpms. When I started to drive it was a little rough, then smoothed out. I called vw of America who recommended that I take it back to the dealer. I am waiting for them to return my call. I have also 3 intermittent problems with my am radio cutting out--are the problems connected?.

I was driving on a secondary highway going only 30 mph when a warning light came on. At the same time the engine started running very rough. I immediately pulled the car to the side of the road. At the side of the road with the engine off, I pulled out the Jetta handbook to research the meaning of the warning light. The light blinking was the engine malfunction light. After that I called the vw 800 road side program, a tow truck came and towed the Jetta to the dealer. Now this morning I go to the dealership and they inform me the cost of getting this new car fixed will be $6,800. 00. With that information I have to ask why and the dealership proceeds to say I have "bad fuel". The comment by the dealership triggered all types of responses. The first response was proof I put the right type of fuel in the tank which I did. Next I had to go and get a sample of fuel from the filling station. After that I delivered a sample of the fuel in question to the dealership for testing. As it turns out the fuel was okay. While I am running around doing all of this my wife finds out via the internet of issues the Jetta is having with the fuel pump. Keep in mind, at no point has the dealership given me information regarding a possible fuel pump issue, which would be a warranty issue, aka no cost to me! it is now 5:20 pm and I have not heard from the dealership. Now I have another issue, is the dealership trying to defraud me? and if so the dealership will have big problems.