Side/rear Glass Problems of Volkswagen Passat

On raising the window, the glass falls into the door without warning. This happens with both front and rear doors, driver and passenger sides. Each time, the diagnosis is the same: the "regulator" failed. Repairs cost approximately $400 per window. My wife and I own identical cars and of the eight windows, four have failed. After roughly $1600 for the four windows, I'm losing patience. A coworker owns a similar car and has had the same problem.

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Severe distortion in windshield. Vw replaced original with two more. Than safelight replaced two more windshields and last was replaced be blue ridge auto glass. Driving with this distortion causes headaches and nausea.

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My side window blew out while driving 65 mph on mostly rural stretch of highway 94, driving eastbound near waukesha, WI. I was in the leftmost lane with no vehicles within 50 yards to the front or back of my car. I don't believe anything struck the window and I didn't see any cracks in the glass before I got on the highway. It was about 30 degrees outside and we had our heater on for about 30 minutes inside the car. I drive a 2003 vw Passat. No accident or injuries to myself or my passenger resulted from the window explosion. I didn't report anything to the police or sheriff because I have no reason to believe the window was deliberately smashed by a person with a weapon or thrown object. The window was replaced at my own expense. I have two photos of the wndow taken before the remaining shattered glass was removed. How common is this for side windows? could it be a defect in the glass? a spontaneous failure of the glass? could a projectile that I didn't see or hear strike the side glass with enough force to shatter the window?.

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The rear window glass fell inside the door while traveling at 80 mph, causing my family to get extremely alarmed. I tried to put it back up via the power window switch on the door but it was incorporative. When I took it to Volkswagen, they said a pin holding the window up broke. This is unacceptable as I had an infant next to the window at the time of the incident. Because of the infant's location, my wife's purse strap hit him in the face causing mirror injury.

Driver's power window regulator mechanism has repeated failures despite replacement/repair on six occasions. This is a serious safety hazard, since the window must be closed by grasping the glass and manipulating it which can result in fingers being trapped and broken. Also, once this failure has happened, the window may drop down into the door unexpectedly at high speed causing driver distraction, or fail to open in an emergency precluding an escape path. This is compounded by faulty door latch mechanism actuators which preclude door opening from outside by rescue personnel. The failure is caused by a faulty roll pin slipping out of the door latch trigger mechanism causing failure of and binding of the linkage which causes the door lock actuating mechanism to fail, trapping passengers inside the vehicle. Please note that per the ge information services, japan issued a recall for this problem.

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For the third time in 6. 5 months, the rear passenger window on my 2001 Volkswagen Passat wagon has shattered. The previous two occurrences were reported earlier. This time the car was parked in the parking lot at work and the window was open a few inches. Upon returning to my car after work around noon, I found the window shattered again and shards of glass all over the inside of the car. After the previous incident, the Volkswagen representative indicated that there was not a defect in the car. He felt that outside influences caused the problem. That is difficult to believe after the third occurrence.

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I was driving on the freeway when my driver side window shattered and imploded for no explainable reason. Dealership refused to replace window as manufacturer defect. The service dealer said he had never heard of this happening before and that there had been no other complaints regarding this.

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Rear passenger window shattered while parked in garage. This occurred twice within a 5 month period. This complaint is filed for the most recent event. The first event occurred on 10/30/2003. The first time the window shattered it was closed. The second time it shattered,the window was open a few inches.

- the contact stated that while driving the 2003 Volkswagen Passat with 7000 failure mileage the brake lights intermittently turned off. Also, the driver's side front headlight turns off, the rear passenger side window, and the horn did not operate. The vehicle was taken to a dealer several times, but they still could not determine the cause of the problems. The current mileage was 105,944.

While driving, the passenger side door glass exploded into the vehicle. The sound was like a gun shot. There were thousands of glass pieces. The window was completely destroyed. Much of the glass fell in, causing minor cuts to the passenger. Some of the glass fell down inside the door. There were no visible defects in the window (cracks, stars, etc. ) and nothing impacted the window to cause it to break.

While driving rear passenger's window exploded without warning. Just prior to explosion, had just closed window.

Locking pin failed causing the left rear window to come off it's track. Nlm.

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The right front seats would rock whenever vehicle is turning corners or curbs. This also happens when coming to or leaving a stop sign or light. Contacted manufacturer & nothing could be or would be done. Sun roof would open & close on its own. Would have no warning. The rear window looked like it had acid rain on it when bought. Been to dealer & mechanic removed seat & replaced it. No problem found. Checking on other problems.