Warnings Problems of Volkswagen Passat

Volkswagen Passat owners have reported 9 problems related to warnings (under the forward collision avoidance category). The most recently reported issues are listed below. Also please check out the statistics and reliability analysis of Volkswagen Passat based on all problems reported for the Passat.

1 Warnings problem of the 2020 Volkswagen Passat

Failure Date: 03/17/2025

Error message alerted to maintenance needed and the air bag light has turned on and remained on. Also said message that front assist inls unavailable.

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2 Warnings problem of the 2018 Volkswagen Passat

Failure Date: 04/23/2022

Airbag error notice and cracking sound when turning steering wheel. Error light for cruise control, front end assistance. This is the second time this has occured. It was previously fixed in 2018.

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3 Warnings problem of the 2017 Volkswagen Passat

Failure Date: 03/26/2022

I had my battery changed at the vw dealership and a week later, my horn stopped working, my airbag light came on and my front assist no longer works. There’s also a clicking noise when I turn my steering wheel. It seems this clock coil issue has been a recall issue for vw for years, but when I search my VIN it list no recalls of this nature.

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4 Warnings problem of the 2017 Volkswagen Passat

Failure Date: 06/07/2021

I have had to have my vehicle serviced over 5 times within the last three months. There is a recurring sensor temps, air bad error, radio not working properly, and front assist sensor light error. Everything I have had to take my vehicle to a service dealer, my wheel bearing need to be changed, my tire sensor needs to be changed, and my steering wheel is shaking. This is an urgent matter that needs to be taken care of.

5 Warnings problem of the 2020 Volkswagen Passat

Failure Date: 03/15/2021

The breaks is very weak I was going to hit the car at the front of me with 1 inch ! it took the car like 4 seconds to stop not sure was it just the breaks or the breaks and tires , the car kept moving after pressing the breaks hard enough , I was shaking since I just got the car 4 days ago !.

6 Warnings problem of the 2017 Volkswagen Passat

Failure Date: 03/15/2021

All three sensors came on at the same time. After having them checked, no issue was found and codes were reset. A couple of days later, all three sensors showed up again. All of this occurred while vehicle was parked, then again in motion.

7 Warnings problem of the 2017 Volkswagen Passat

Failure Date: 02/09/2021

I have a 2017 vw Passat se. Front assist breaks or gets ready to break (shows the big car symbol on dashboard and beeps) in bad weather like while it is rainy and there are no cars around me. It also happened a few times during sunny weather. The car slammed the breaks for no reason. There was no car in front of me. I was going like 40-45 mph. I am super scared it will brake one day when I am going with 60+ on the highway and cause a crash. A safety system that is purpose to reduce the accident risk or impact of a crash should not behave dangerously and become a potatial accident cause.

8 Warnings problem of the 2018 Volkswagen Passat

Failure Date: 01/23/2021

I am at the burger king drive thru Jan 23, 2021, there are a few cars ahead of me. I sit at driver thru with foot on the brake about 3 to 5 minutes, when the car in front of me moves closer to pick up his food, I let off of the brake and drift forward as I get closer to car in front of me , I press the brake and the pedal goes all the way to the floor. I press harder and my car bangs directly into the back of a 2015 camara that has been garaged kept and has only 3,000 miles on it. I give the driver my phone number. Very minor damage to his car and only damage my license plate area. I pulled my car into the parking lot , turned off ignition, I then started pumping my brakes and eventually the brakes felt much stiffer after about 15 pumps of the brake pedal . One week prior to this , I took my car to the vw dealership for oil change and specifically asked for them to check my brakes and tires. I was told when I picked up my car that tires should be replace in about 5,000 more miles,but my brakes were fine. My car just passed 40,000 miles on the odometer 2 days after the oil change. Yesterday Jan 25 ,2021 , I took the car to vw dealership explaining what had happened, today is Jan 26 they kept the car over night waiting to hear back from specialist from vw. Meanwhile I searched internet for info. That is when I reached this site. Also my forward collision should have come before I made contact with the car I hit at burger king. I seriously don't want anything to do with this vehicle anymore. I don't trust it. I also injured my leg pressing so hard on the brake pedal.

9 Warnings problem of the 2017 Volkswagen Passat

Failure Date: 11/15/2019

I have a 2017 Passat when it's raining hard on the road and my speed is greater than 55 mph the passenger side windshield stops right in front of my vision vision (right in the middle of the driver's side) creates a white blocking effect so I don't have a clear road visibility. In a service I discussed this detail with the service advisor at the vw agency and he did not want to understand or was misunderstood, I told him that the design of these windshields had this defect. On another occasion when I was driving in an area where there was snow the front collision alarm started to alarm for no reason, there was no obstruction, apparently one of the front sensors fails when it gets wet, I took the car to the dealer and reported this to the service advisor, they did a review of the car they said that it had nothing damaged that everything is fine. But when it rains really hard, it does this.


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