Brakes Failed problems of the 2006 Volkswagen Passat

My car was driving and brakes were working fine. Then I tried to stop as I came to a red light n brakes totally failed. I couldn't stop n went right through the red light and I between 2 car b4 finally coming to a stop a half mile later. I drove the car on backstreets and the brakes will work when I start going but after a few stops they start getting soft until they just totally fail. Their is plenty of brake fluid in the system.

At the morning of 3/30/2012 while was driving to work brakes feel funny( sometimes like hard, sometimes soft) started that morning. While I was barking my car brakes failed, hardly stopped and crashed to electric pol. Broke front grill and emblem put a dent on chrome piece on the front. I took the vehicle to dealer. Found brake booster neprene hose had multiple cracks. . That replacement should be free but they charge me some$200. 00. I would like to complain Volkswagen of America. Good think did not happened on highway 70 mph.

The contact owns a 2006 Volkswagen Passat. The contact was attempting to pull into a parking space when the brakes failed. A local mechanic stated that the heat shields on the turbo failed, causing the brake failure. The vehicle was repaired under the contact's factory warranty. The failure and current mileages were approximately 47,000.

I have two problems with this car: 1. Emergency brake failure continues to give me parking brake fault message & periodically will not engage or disengage. 2. On several occasions during braking my car is slipping and takes longer to brake. I see this problem is already a recall on other vw Passats but not on my model Passat but this recall should be extended to my model as well. Brake vacuum problem. I will be making an appointed to get this looked at with dealer but wanted you to have a record of this and investigate these issues.

Power brake assist failure in low ambient temperatures (WI winters). Occurs whenever temperatures are in the 30's or lower. Vacuum hose has been replaced twice, with no improvement. Apparently condensation is building inside the hose (reported by dealership service dept. ).

I own a 2006 vw Passat 2. 0t. Two days ago, as my wife was parking with the baby in the back seat, the brakes suddenly failed completely and she smacked into the car in front of her and it into the car in front of it. Luckily no one was in those cars and my wife and baby are okay. She then filed a police report and had the roadside assistance pick it up and take it to the service center. Now I know about the late 2006 recall and we had that fixed but geez, it's a good thing she wasn't on the highway! as of yesterday, vw mechanics could not duplicate the problem and could not find a mechanical or computer error. The service representative said that they road tested it and it was fine. However, my car model was recalled by vw in 12/06 and supposedly fixed a power brake issue. Of course yesterday they told me that it was also recalled just yesterday for a software update. Means nothing I guess. . . And they've road tested it again. By the way, had my wife floored the gas, with the 2. 0t engine, it would have been far worse. Witnesses saw her screaming and looking down before the accident, trying to figure out what was happening. Vw consumer affairs, is also investigating the issue and the dealers service levels. Now today, something surprising happened. My lojack early warning system called an emailed me because as it turns out they were road testing it. Funny, they said they road tested it yesterday as well but I had no early warning from lojack. Sounds like I caught the service center in a lie.