Two problems related to power train have been reported for the 2004 Volkswagen New Beetle. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2004 Volkswagen New Beetle based on all problems reported for the 2004 New Beetle.
The contact owns a 2004 Volkswagen New Beetle. The contact was driving 60 mph when the contact attempted to shift from second gear but the vehicle would not respond. In addition, the vehicle exhibited an abnormally hard shift. The contact took the vehicle to a local mechanic where the mechanic advised that the valve body in the transmission was defective. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 58,000. The VIN was not available.
I recently bought a 2004 New Beetle tdi with the dsg transmission for my daughter. The car had approximately 75,000 miles on it when the failure occurred. The car had been maintained at a vw dealer and was in excellent shape. While my daughter was driving to school the dual mass flywheel self destruct and took out the transmission with it. I thought that maybe it was just my bad luck until I googled the problem and found out that many vw's with the dual mass flywheel have suffered from this catastrophic failure. Vw of America stated that they were unable to help me with this problem. The vw tdi's are not race cars and this type of failure should not occur on a car that operates at the lower rpm range as these cars do. This is either a design flaw or a manufacturing problem and is leaving people with huge repair bills, $6600 in my case.