Two problems related to front air bag have been reported for the 2001 Volkswagen Passat. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2001 Volkswagen Passat based on all problems reported for the 2001 Passat.
Recently I was in a rear end collision (I was car in the back) and I totaled my 2001 Volkswagen Passat. The passenger airbag deployed with no passenger and my driver airbag failed to go off at all. This worries me as to think if I had been going faster then 20mph whether the airbag would've gone off at all. My father in law who is a mechanic says he has never in his life seen the passenger airbag but not the drivers go off. He has seen it the other way around but not this way.
Front crash at 50 mph and neither airbag deployed. Damage to vehicle unknown at this time.