Four problems related to air bag have been reported for the 2000 Volkswagen Passat. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2000 Volkswagen Passat based on all problems reported for the 2000 Passat.
Side airbag deployed for no reason while driving straight at the speed limit of 75 mph. The local vw dealer determined the side impact sensor is defective. This is a very interesting situation because a fail safe exists in these systems in that the supplemental restraint control module in the center of the car must simultaneously "see" a side impact g force in order to deploy the side air bag. In other words even with a defective side impact sensor the side air bag should not have deployed. At the time of the incident the vehicle was travelling straight ahead next to a semi truck. No such impact occurred and the vw dealer confirmed the vehicle has no evidence of such an impact. I had this investigated by Volkswagen ag and my local dealer. Suffered broken teeth, bruised ribs, hearing loss in left ear.
Tl- the contact owns a 2000 Volkswagen Passat. The contact stated that while driving 30 mph, he crashed into another vehicle. The vehicle was destroyed however none of the air bags deployed. There were no injuries reported. The VIN was unavailable. The failure and current mileage was 130,000. Kmj.
While driving I experienced a spontaneous deployment of the passenger side lateral air bag in my 2000 vw Passat. With deployment, all electical power was lost to the vehicle, leaving me with no control of the auto. There had been no collision or impact to the vehicle. The air bag just went off by itself. There was no injury to passengers from the airbag, but it almost caused me to lose control of the vehicle.
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