Seats Problems of Volkswagen Jetta

Volkswagen Jetta owners have reported 363 seats related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 7 most common seats problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's front seat heater/cooler (213 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's seats (134 problems). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.


Recently reported Seats problems of Volkswagen Jetta

The Front Seat Heater/cooler problem

The contact owns a 2000 Volkswagen Jetta. The contact stated that while driving with the front driver’s side seat heater activated, the seat became extremely hot. The contact started smelling a burning odor coming from the seat.   Read details...

The Seats problem

There is a spring that it out of place and when I turned to get out of the seat it scratched my back.   Read details...

The Mid/rear Seats Assembly problem

This incident has happened twice. First incident was when I encountered a herd of deer on a rural road. I was travelling at highway speed of 55 mph and had to suddenly brake and DE-accelerate to avoid a collision. The folding back seats flopped down in the DE-acceleration.   Read details...

The Front Seat Recliner problem

We recently purchased a 2005 Volkswagen Jetta station wagon. On January 5, the drivers seat came off, (unattached,was disconnected ) from the track on the car. Wolkswagon has fixed this at no charge but there needs to be an investiagion into whether there are other cars out there with the same   Read details...

The Seat Broken problem

As the third car in a 4 car accident, it was the only one where airbags failed to deploy. Additionally it was the most damaged. The front drivers seat broke upon rear impact prior to the car being forced into the vehicle in front of me. I was stopped at the time.   Read details...




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