Wheel Bolts Problems of Volkswagen Jetta

The contact owns a 1998 Volkswagen Jetta. While driving 25 mph, the abs warning light illuminated and the passenger side rear wheel disengaged. The vehicle was towed to the dealer and they stated that the wheel bearing separated. They replaced the wheel bearings, spindles, speed sensor, ring, and drum. Approximately two years later, while driving 55-60 mph, the passenger side rear wheel disengaged. The vehicle was towed to the contact's residence. The dealer stated that the wheel bearings failed. As of August 21, 2007, the failure has not been repaired. The contact also stated that the windows would not roll up or down. The dealer stated that the window regulators failed and that there was a recall on previous models. The NHTSA campaign id and powertrain were unavailable. The current mileage was 138,022 and failure mileage was 101,612.

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While on the freeway we had a blown tire in our 2002 vw Jetta GLS vr6 vehicle. We could not open the wheel bolts since they were glued from the factory, into the wheel. It took a 4' piece of pipe to operate the bolts wrench to open them. Furthermore, the jack supplied with the vehicle is undersized and unsafe to operate. It shifted with the vehicle and was not able to provide a steady support for raising the vehicle for the wheel change. After a few tries, we resorted to using a hydraulic jack supplied by the local sheriff deputy who was passing by the location we were stopped at.

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While driving at 60 mph and without any warning right rear wheel lugs:nuts came off, causing consumer to lose control. Dealer stated that wheel bearing went bad.

The locking lug nuts end pieces on my 98 Jetta broke off on routine tire rotations. The dealer was initially unable to remove the lugnuts until he removed the whole wheel assy and welded tools onto the lugnuts. I have the welded-on tools with the lugnuts - total cost was 600. 00. If this happened while travelling I would have been in trouble to just change a tire. Why was there no recall? the dealers in germany said they recalled the german models because of this problem.