Engine And Engine Cooling Problems of Volkswagen Rabbit

The contact owns a 2009 Volkswagen Rabbit. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the speed odometer went to zero and the vehicle failed to accelerate forward. Several unknown warning lights illuminated. The vehicle had not been repaired nor diagnosed. A dealer was not contacted. The contact mentioned NHTSA campaign number: 16v913000 (service brakes, hydraulic, electronic stability control) as a possible solution to the failure however, the VIN was not included. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The mileage was approximately 115,000.

See all problems of the 2009 Volkswagen Rabbit 🔎.

Pulled car up to propane display outside of heb grocery store. Once tanks were exchanged, noticed smoke billowing from engine. Turned care off, got out and noticed fire underneath engine. Store employee got hood open, doused fire. Called wrecker to tow car home. On December 25, 2020 neighbor noticed smoke and burning wire smell coming from hood of car. Opened hood disabled battery.

See all problems of the 2008 Volkswagen Rabbit 🔎.

The car would shake in the highway and would not accelerate at certain moment. Also stops randomly I don't know why my car acting that way and I am afraid to drive even the repair shop doesn't know what the issue is.

I want to add a complaint to the Volkswagen mark five model's crankshaft position sensor. For some reason, this senor at times does something to the engine and it kills the engine. It has happened twice in the span of 4 months. Everything is on, including headlights, all electrical systems, steering but at high speeds, the engine dies and I've had to coast to a stop to restart it and restarts without any problems. I've looked at forums to see what could be causing it and my pointed to the crankshaft positioning sensor. It's occurred to vehicles with high and low mileage.

See all problems of the 2007 Volkswagen Rabbit 🔎.

Defective coolant fan #2 manufactured by siemens. P1951 fault code for non operational coolant fan #2 occurred on 09/29/2011 at 122,163 miles for a 2007 vw Rabbit. Vw dealership detected the fault and replaced the defective coolant fan #2 with a new siemens coolant fan #2 at owners request on 09/29/2011. On 08/20/2014 at 182,000 miles the replacement 09/29/2011 siemens coolant fan #2 failed and stopped working. A second fault code p1951 was detected by a certified and licensed private mechanic. Second siemens coolant fan #2 found defective in less than 3 years and 60,000 miles. Original coolant fan # 2 lasted 4 years and 122,000 miles.

I had observed twice that the abs and brake system lights illuminated under heavy braking. I read the service manual and several vw forums and my understanding was that this was normal under what is called �emergency break�. I both cases turning the ignition off and on again restored the car to normal. On February 2013 the abs/esc system failed and the car crashed against a wall while braking before a turn. Airbags did not deploy. We were two passengers on board: brian foxe and myself. Fortunately, none got hurt although I had to be picked up by paramedics. We both have taken that turn many times and we could not explain what went wrong went we used the brakes before the turn. We never understood what happened until I got the recall. Since then, the abs failure had caused at least the following: -suffering from the crash and incredible amounts of stress which required therapy -I had to buy another car ASAP and I bought another 2007 Rabbit -the 2009 Rabbit was finally put back together on July August 2013 -the 2009 Rabbit would lose abs/esc at the sightless break so it has been sitting as a backup car since then. -the car was serviced for a transmission issue on 2016 (Volkswagen customer care 160612855) and after it came back from the dealer the symptoms disappeared. That makes me believe that either: ovw knew about abs/esc issues (safety recall 45f2) and preventively updated the ecu. Othe ecu was updated as a routine or as part of the transmission service. As per today, I believe I have a Rabbit that has already had the ecu upgraded and cannot be diagnosed anymore. However, I have evidence and witnesses of what happened.