Underhood Wiring Problems of Volkswagen Jetta

Regular usage of car resulted in having to repair and replace the spark plug cables on my car.

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While I was driving on the freeway, suddenly a fire started for no reason from under the passenger glove compartment, burning plastic was dripping to the floor mats. I pulled over to the shoulder, and after several minutes my car was totally on fire. I would like to know if there are other incidents of spontaneous fires for this make and year model.

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I have a Volkswagen Jetta 2001 vr6 with a bad coil. I found an article from Feb 2003 released by vw saying all 2001 and some 2002 & 2003 models were being recalled for the coils. When I called vw they said in does not apply to my model. While searching the internet it seems this is common for those year and obviously the coil is faulty.

When driving 25 mph consumer noticed black smoke coming from under the hood. Consumer turned the vehicle off, opened the hood, and noticed flames coming from the engine. Consumer called the fire department to put out the fire. The vehicle was towed to the dealer.

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My glowplug relay failed and melted connector and killed battery. . Read more...

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After driving approximately 1-2 hours consumer parked vehicle. Afterwards found out that fire was shooting from under the hood. During fire sun roof was automatically opening and closing by itself, also, vehicle popped itself into reverse and went backward during the fire.

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No engine light came on and I lost power up hill all of a sudden and was almost hit by a car and a semi in back of me. I took it to dick hanna in vanc. Wa and they looked at it. They thought it was the mass air sensor . I called volkswagon and they only would offer to pay 50/50 on the job. But this is after I just paid 1300. 00 for th e 40,000 mile check up. Then I refused I said I wanted to go to another dealer and have it looked at. Volkswagon then said that they might not pay anything on it if I did go to armstrong,(where I originally bought the car) when I asked them why they are willing to pay 100% to others with this problem they said they review these cases (case by case). When asked why would they not offer 50/50 if I went to armstrong they got really nasty on the phone. I think that volkswagon needs to be investigated, there sounds like there is something illegal going on. Dt.

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Smoldering fire put out with fire extinguisher. May be related to antilock brake system recall. Will contact dealer and manufacturer.

Consumer was driving along and smelled smoke from inside. Vehicle was stopped at a stop sign and smoke was coming from rear. Consumer pulled into a parking lot and getting out noticed gas tank had flames coming out. Dealer was notified and not concerned.

Abs light came on at startup, contacted dealer service and told them of the problem, asked if safe to drive. They replied yes without abs. Drove 30mi home, stopped and shutoff car, 1minute later, large amounts of smoke from under hood and in cabin. Fire dept responded. No visible flame, but burned wiring was evident. Dealer has only confirmed so far that the abs controller, pump and wiring harness has shorted out.

A fire started in engine compartment while driving 45 mph. Dealer notified. Feel free to provide any further information.

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Numerous electrical compnents have failed and been replaced. The misfiring on acceleration causes car to thrust forward after applying the throttle. I consider this to be a safety hazard, as I was almost struck by on-coming trafic in an intersection.

After the car was sitting for 3 hours the vehcile spontaniously combusted. Vw headquarter is being very shady with the cause of incident. There is no front end to vehicle but the battery is still intack. Not caused by battery explosion. Unknown how car CA.

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Engine harness shorted and smoked upon starting. Part can not be found. Vw of America notified and no response in 3 weeks. Vw file number 667784. No help from vw at all. No explaination as to why it happened.

Electrical systems are suspect. These two problems have been into the dealer, but the window, even after being replaced, continues to have problems.

Vehicle was parked and smoke started to come from b- piller. Aft vehicle was serviced and inspected bydealer it was discovered that relay did not trip, causing wiring harness to catch on fire. After investigation the entire wiring harness needs to be replaced. Please provide further information. .