Brake Sensor Problems of Volkswagen Jetta

I have owned this used vehicle for 3 months. When attempting to apply the brake at low speed (10-15mph) the brake pedal stuck in place and would not go down. This brake failure resulted in an accident. During said accident, at low impact, the airbag was triggered to deploy. This leads me to believe the airbag or sensor is defective, as I have been in a much more serious accident with an older Jetta that did not result in airbag deployment. I am at risk of having my vehicle totaled out because of these issues when it normally would be repairable.

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Metal plates in the road trigger the the car's front-assist sensor to activate the autonomous emergency braking system in the vehicle, despite the absence of any obstruction. The result is a jarring deceleration from ~20mph to a complete stop in a matter of feet: effectively minor accident. There is no advanced warning, only a simultaneous buzzer and dashboard signal. It poses a significant risk to all vehicle occupants, especially passengers who are unaware of the hazard or otherwise unable to prepare themselves (e. G. Infants). This problem is persistent, disruptive, and dangerous for the vehicle's occupants as well as any trailing vehicles that may consequently crash into the unexpectedly halted vehicle. Volkswagen claims that this is "expected behavior" of the sensor, as the vehicle manual warns of "unwanted" behavior when "there are . . . Metal plates in the road. " nevertheless, while it may be "expected," it is still patently unsafe. Volkswagen's suggested resolution is to permanently disengage the front-assist safety feature of the vehicle. This is unacceptable because it exposes the vehicle's occupants to other safety hazards that might otherwise be avoided with an engaged front-assist system. Furthermore, the system must be disengaged anew on each vehicle restart, which leaves room for potential operator oversight. I experienced this unsafe behavior nearly daily for almost 18 months due to construction in my neighborhood, and I have documented it 3 times with timestamped videos. As this site does not permit video files to be uploaded, I can provide those upon request. A bbb auto line case was opened again Volkswagen. Vehicle repurchase was denied based on Volkswagen's warning of "unwanted" behavior in the vehicle manual. Nevertheless, the decision affirmed that "the front assist issue substantially impairs the use, value and safety of the vehicle. ".

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Vehicle proximity sensors began to flash, despite being the only car in a freeway entry lane. There were no cars in front of me, or in back of me, but my vehicle's sensors began to flash and the car began to break as if preparing for a collision. Car never stopped completely, since my foot was on the gas. Sensors continued to flash on dashboard for a minute. I'm not sure of what causes this, perhaps the equipped vehicle software isn't clear of bugs, or sensors could have been manipulated via bluetooth connection.

I started up my car and was driving from work, all of a sudden I see a bunch of my warnings light appear on the dashboard all at the same time. I was driving in alexandria city and the care was in motion when the lights appeared. The tire pressure light, traction control, abs, and even the air bag light. 3 different system have faults is a concern to my safety. I went to a mechanic twice and then the dealership, found out that the rear abs sensor needs to be changed to get rid of abs and traction control. After that was part was changed and the fault code was cleared the traction control and tire pressure still remained. Air bag light code was cleared too. After a month driving all of those same light reappeared again after I started up my car, I was stationary when the lights reappeared and was about to drive in city. The lights did not go away after driving. A big job needs to be done in which this is an manufacturer error which vw needs to take care of. I've spent close to $1100 of part and labor and this problem still remains. I am concerned for my safety if the electronic system might caused my air bags to deploy or traction control may not assist me while driving. The first incident occurred late July and the second occurred September 6.

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Abs sensor error- had to replace sensor on two occasions within two years. Each one costing over $200. On second replace, the sensor directly from vw was defective. Warning light comes on, goes off, comes on, etc. Comes on when moving and sometimes when sitting still. Mechanic told me this is a very common error. I don't want a car that is not fully dependable. After the tdi issue and 10 mpg less with the fix, I am very unhappy.

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Tl the contact owns a 2009 Volkswagen Jetta. While driving approximately 80 mph, the abs, electronic stability control, and brake sensor indicators suddenly illuminated and remained lit. The failure was not diagnosed or repaired. The contact indicated that the vehicle was serviced in may of 2017 per NHTSA campaign number: 16v913000 (service brakes) and the abs control module software was updated. The contact stated that the vehicle experienced the same failures listed in the recall. The manufacturer and local dealer (vista Volkswagen, 700 n. Federal hwy, popeno beach, FL) were notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 129,000.

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The contact owns a 2010 Volkswagen Jetta. While operating the vehicle, the abs sensor remained illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The contact was informed that the vehicle was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 16v913000 (service brakes), although the failures were identical. The VIN was unknown. The failure mileage was 54,000.

I replaced the brake pads on the above described vw. For more completeness it is a vw Jetta 2009 sportwagen, tdi (diesel). The 4 front brake pad thicknesses were about 3/16", the 4 rear brake pad thicknesses were 1/16". This is very unusual. All cars that I have owned etc. Experience faster front pad wear than rear pad wear. This is also what vw expects as they have the electronic wear sensor on the front brake pad. I believe that this may be caused by a defective proportioning valve or by a too soft pad material.

I purchased the Jetta used from carmax in nashville, TN in 2014. It began having safety issues on March 2014. Randomly, my car will just stop while driving down the road, or after accelerating from a stopped position when moving on from a stop sign or stop light. I can be driving anywhere from 15 mph to 50 mph, and all systems shut down. The battery light goes on, the steering locks, and the brakes lock. I always panic, put the car in neutral and have luckily managed to veer off to the side of a road and stop, shut the car off, and turn it back on again. Eurofix tried to manage the problem by replacing the crank sensor and cam shaft. But he problem came back, much worse. The second problem is now I cannot unlock my drivers side door with my magnetic key or by sticking the actual key in the lock. I see that another recall has been announced for the 2011 Jetta that is not pulling up via my VIN number, but I believe it might be my car's issue: online, ate that in March 29, 2011 (published by NHTSA) in which an issue with "an electrical wiring and fuse layout where the converter box is protected by the same fuse used by the signal horn and the anti-they alarm system. Should that fuse be blown,, the converter will be disconnected from the power supply which in turn will shut off applications such as the engine management system, lighting system, and wipers". . . . . . "should this happen while the vehicle is being driven, the engine could stall or the headlights or wipers could turn off unexpectedly, potentially leading to a crash without warning. " please help me!!!!!!! what do I do. What will remedy this situation so I don't get killed or kill others. I't gonna happen. . . . Then my family will file a lawsuit. I need guidance and for this car to be fixed/traded out.

I purchased a 2000 vw Jetta on 6/16/10. Two weeks after purchase, the vehicle began to have problems & since I have had the vehicle, it has had to have the following repairs: 2 fans, abs sensor would come on & lock up the wheels, so the system had to be unplugged, coolant system had to be replaced, a transmission replaced & a certified transmission specialist found it had been taken out prior & 4 cyl parts were used in a 6 cyl vehicle, & thermostat had to be replaced. The cost of repairs to date are approx. $5,200 & I only paid $4,995 for the vehicle. This vehicle is not safe and should not have been sold in the condition it was in. The seller failed to disclose that the vehicle had underlying problems after I inquired several times. The business should be held responsible for selling an unsafe vehicle and I wonder how many other vehicles the business has sold like this. I have this vehicle in for repairs more than I have been able to drive it & when I purchased it, the seller was aware I needed a reliable vehicle to get to the kidney transplant very quickly.

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My rear brakes started making a horrible noise when I applied the brakes about one month ago around 5/1/2010. From this point on, the car's braking distance increased by about 50% with absolutely no warning to me. I bought this car brand new in January of 2009 and it only has 16,000 miles on it. My car has been serviced on schedule for 500 mile courtesy inspection, 5000 mile service, 10000 mile service and 15000 mile service. I took my car in for va state inspection on 6/4/2010. The mechanic told me that my rear brake pads were completely worn through and that they were braking with metal on metal contact. The mechanic stated that the front brakes were basically in "new" condition. He also stated that the left rear brake was in worse shape than the right rear brake. This car only has 16668 mile on it. It has been serviced as instructed in the owners manual and it has never been raced or used in any way out of the normal. The vw dealership confirmed what the mechanic at the inspection station told me. He said that the rear brakes were gone and that there was no brake pad left at all and the car was stopping with metal on metal contact. He said that the pads and rotors would need to be replaced. I told him that I used to work on my old car and that this was not normal. He stated he has had a number of vws come in with the same problem. He also stated that there is no sensor in the rear brake pad, that the pads will not begin to squeal when they are worn down or provide any indication whatsoever that they have failed other than the sound they make once the metal of the caliper is hitting the metal of the pads. I did some initial research on the internet and this seems to be a pretty serious problem for vw. Every mechanic I have talked to about my car has said that vws are designed for the rear brakes to do most of the work. Vw needs to put some type of wear sensors in the rear brakes to let consumers know when they need to replace their brakes before they fail.

I have a 2007 vw Jetta with 72k miles on it. My front brake pad which are original from the dealer have 65% left on them, while I am going onto my second set of rear brakes, the first a set I did a year ago. Yes I do have high miles but I have always thought that the front ones go first. I am now spending about $500 to do my rear pads, rotors, caliper, and changing the brake fluid. I think vw needs to switch the sensor to the rears not the fronts. If I didn't know anything about cars I would have waited for the sensor to go off which probably wouldn't be until next year at this rate.

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This letter is to express my dissatisfaction with rear brake performance on my 2007 Jetta. The summary is extremely rapid rear pad wear, while then front, which have the wear sensor, remain unscathed. This is a known issue and the dealer admits its part of a ?safe braking? design that tries to make the car squat rather than dive. The problem is, this is an unconventional method of brake application (rear biased when physics has the fronts normally doing more work), combined with a conventional brake design that has smaller parts and no wear sensors in the rear. The result of this ?safety feature? is that I can expect to wear out rear pads faster than front, in as little as 9-10k miles. The problem is a reasonably minded person would not come to this conclusion, and the lack of a rear pad wear warning system creates a potential safety issue. The user manual does not warn that rear pads may wear faster, and in fact indicates they should be inspected each 10 k, or when the front wear sensor illuminates. Both of these cases may be too late, leading at best to expensive repairs when the rotors are damaged, or worse, to unpredictable braking in an emergency. If I have my car inspected at 10k, and the rears are still serviceable, I do not believe they would make it to 20k. The dealer admits its a common complaint, and that there is nothing than can be done. I feel this is a design defect and that pressure should be applied for a real fix. . Read more...

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2007 Jetta wolfsburg rear brakes made from a softer material causing them to wear at a much faster rate than the front(approx. Every 16k miles). Info is straight from vw USA. Why would they put the sensors on only the front if they know the rear will wear faster and no info in the owners manual. Unreasonable repair on a front wheel drive car. Front brakes still look new while back brakes are worn and cut into the rotor. Vw USA says this was a fix in response to customer complaints of rear brake noise. Softer material causes more brake dust and brakes squeal all the time. Having to replace brakes much more often is not an efficient fix. I have seen many complaints about this on edmunds. Com. This is an issue.

The contact owns a 2001 Volkswagen Jetta. The contact purchased a used car and, within the same week, it began to stall. The dealer could find no failures. She took the vehicle to another Volkswagen dealer and they gave her a list of all the failures. The list included the transmission, rattling in the engine, and the brake sensors. There are four different tires on the vehicle and each are the incorrect size. The contact stated that she does not have the money to repair all these failures. The failure mileage was 110,000.

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I was driving home 50-55 mph clear night smooth road I had not noticed any signs of my tire being low I have valve caps that show when tire air pressure is low and they all were green than I heard a loud noise and my car pulled to the left I pulled over and noticed my tire had completely separated at the sidewall leaving about 2-3 inches of tire on the rim and the rest was in one piece barley sitting on the rim the tire was made by nankang toursport 611 dot 109n other numbers I found on the tire were 517 2306 z2c, n-2570-3l xr611 radial 195/65 r15 9ih m+s tubeless when the tire blew out and the tire separated it tore my abs sensor wire and im not sure what other damage my alignment is now off as well.

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Wife stated that when she hit brakes it was hard to stop car ,did not slow, rear ended a SUV at about 30 mph which pushed front end up to windshield above bumper, pushed engine into firewall. She incurred major seat belt bruising with no air bag deployment. After inspection the insurance company found that two sensors had been distorted along with cracked engine mounts and bent cradle. They totaled the car due in part to no air bag deployment,t and felt that the car would be unsafe after repairs. After contacting Volkswagen, they said that air bag deployment should not have happened. But what if my wife had jumped into the car and forgot to put the seat belt on she would have gone through the windshield. I feel that this is a major safety defect since most accidents would over ride the bumper due to low bumper height. Volkswagen does not seem to think this is a problem from the pictures I sent them and our talk on the phone.

We purchased our 2001 Jetta 1. 8l turbo wolfsburg edition in Jan of 2003 from a certified used vw dealer. When we drove off the lot, not 5 minutes later, the turbo seemed to fail and we began to lose power, epc light came on, check engine light came on. We immediately took car back to dealer and they fixed problem. Everything ran fine until sept 2003 our check engine light came on, shortly after we received notice that there had been a recall regarding ignition coils. We took our vehicle to a local dealership where they replaced the coils free of charge. This solved the light issue for a couple of months, then it came back on again, this time when idling fluctuating between 700 rpm and about 1500 rpm and stalling on occasion. We took the car to a local garage and they ran a diagnostics, cleared the failures to see if that solved the problem, which it did temporarily. . . Ever since we have been running diagnostics trying to determine why our check engine light keeps coming on, each time the problem is temporarily solved. At first the mechanic thought it was the airflow sensor, but once they looked closer determined it was a different problem. We have had corrosion removed, connections cleaned, and our lambda sensor replaced. Now our car continues to run and idle poorly and sporadically, the car stalls when you slow, the turbo works on occasion, losses power when accelerating, when car first starts it barely moves with accelerator floored, brakes are very sluggish, sometimes really having to push to get car to stop. No one seems to know what the problem is. Everytime we take it in multiple errors pop up, last time there was 17 fault codes, mechanic keeps going down the list of what to check hoping to find the problem. The bill just keeps getting bigger and nothing has been solved. Recently think that the original issue and current issues are one in the same as symptoms are becoming more similar. Help!.

The airbag light has come on 4 times in my 2005 new Jetta 2. 5 the seat belt sensors in front have been replaced once at dealership, this started when the car had only 22000 miles and kept coming on around every 10000 miles, they had to also replace the airbag(s) not sure which ones were replaced, the seatbealts don't wind back up properly sometimes as well. At around 25000 miles the brakes had to be replaced, we heard a clicking one day in the rear wheel well, we took it to the dealership they had replaced the brakes, rotors etc. I have documentation of these repairs.

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Back brakes and rotors had to be replaced on my 2001 Jetta glx v6 which was purchased 08/01. I only had 23,000 miles on the car! at my 20,000 mile service no problems were mentioned. My check engine light came on too. I had to have my O2 sensor replaced under warranty. The warranty did not cover the brakes. I do not ride the brakes. 1 month after I bought the car I noticed that when I start it in the morning it makes a sound like and old junky car would. I had it to the dealer twice for this and they said its nothing and that's the way a v6 sounds! it only does it on the first start of the day. I am afraid it will end up being some very expensive problem in the future. 9 months after I had the car the arm rest came apart and had to be fixed under warranty. I will never buy another Volkswagen again and I would not recommend them to my friends who are MD's and rn's and can afford nice cars.

Transmission replaced on February 8, and abs sensor replaced on February 21. Brakes had failed.

The brake sensor caused the engine to think the brakes were applied and lose power. The brake system then failed while dirving and the brakes would just lock up. If the 2nd problem happened on the highway I fear I would have been rear ended. Both problems could be relatd. The sensor problem would trigger a dash warning light for the glow plug relay. In general the car has had problems with the brakes for most of the summer.

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The gear was hard to shift out of park and the brake sensor needed to be replaced.