Two problems related to air conditioner have been reported for the 2015 Volkswagen Jetta. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2015 Volkswagen Jetta based on all problems reported for the 2015 Jetta.
Sunroof spontaneously exploded on the highway. It has been a very hot summer and I have to use the air conditioning on high to cool my car with all black interior for my infant son (the air vent positioning in this car makes it very hard to cool the backseat). I was driving on the highway with my 8 week old baby in the backseat, ac on high, and radio at a low/normal volume. Out of nowhere I heard a loud explosion and it completed terrified me and my baby. I quickly realized the sunroof had shattered with glass falling threw the sunshade gaps and I got off the highway immediately. Thank goodness I did not crash from the sound of the explosion and I had the shade closed or all the glass would have shattered on us both!! I did not see anything fly and hit the sunroof on the road. When I got out of the car the glass looked like it had exploded upward with no sign of anything hitting it from above and no damage to the shade or exterior body of the car. My ears were ringing and thumping for a whole day afterwards - I’m certain my babys ears were hurting as well but couldn’t confirm of course because he was 8 weeks old. I’m certain it was an issue with the manufacturing of the glass or the installation and nothing hit the glass. I am so surprised this has not been recalled yet - so unsafe for the driver, passengers I. E. My infant, and other drivers on the road.
On September 25, 2017 I had parked my car for about 4 hours on a very hot day (over 90 degrees farenheit) and I entered the car, turned on the air conditioning on full cool and began to drive. Approximately 5 minutes later, while driving on the highway, the passenger side front door window ":exploded" out sending glass outside the car into the lane next to me and onto the roadway. The noise of the explosion was very loud and startled me. The glass that remained around the edges of the broken window fell into the car in the passenger area but most had been blown out in the "explosion. ". The glass that blew out scratched the car paint underneath and behind the door on the outside. I yakt extremely good care of my cars and the window, prior to the explosion, was completely intact with no damages or scratches on the window. Had anyone been next to me in another auto with the window open, or if I had been statioanary and a pedestrian was outside the window, I am certain they would have sustained injuries. While the force of the blast was outward, I beleive anyone in the passenger seat would have likewise sustained injury, certainly to the eyes as minute glass particles were blown about the car on the passenger side. In my opinion, the glass was either manufactured in a faulty manner that did not allow for the temperature variances or installed at manufacture of the vehicle in a manner the did not allow expansion and/or contraction of the glass caused by temperature variances.
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