general problems of the 2004 Volkswagen Touareg

Leaking gas caught on fire put it out but now I have no head lights no high beams replaced everything still nothing. All lights on dash go crazy kills battery all the time and had to replace something in the rear end. Overall it has cost me $2500 and I still have no headlights at all and leaking gas. It’s my only vehicle I hope next time it doesn’t catch back on fire could have been worse and still could be. Somebody could get hurt and I have kids.

Drive it short distance and it won't start again for hours! have taken it to vw to put on brakes and asked them to check it out, found nothing! they have known about this recall since April 2017 shows air bag light on all the time !.

The vehicle is undrivable / unpredictable when the ambient temperature is below zero (f). This problem was observed for 4 days in Feb. 2004. The car will start, but surges and balks so badly you can't drive it. This condition will continue for over 20 minutes. It will re-occur the next time you try and use the vehicle so long as the temperature is below zero. The safety hazard is that it leaves you stranded wherever this happens. There's nothing the operator can do. Vw has tried 3 repairs: (1) change the engine oil to synthetic, (2) & (3) reprogram the engine computer twice to supposedly fix this problem. It's now 2 years later, and we are experiencing below zero weather again, and the exact same problem persists. My dealer is not able to find any information on this problem, and can't get assistance from vw. I will contact vwoa directly and initiate a case. Finally, in researching this problem, I have found many other owners of the v6 engine who report this problem and say it's never been corrected.

2004 Touareg v6 engine has been a torment, with 40 different problems! but two of the problems could be considered safety concerns! eradicate braking with lurching and acceleration hesitation both of which set up an unpredictable driving style! both of these problems are magnified when attempting a left turn. The driver can not depend on a assured performance at critical times . A driver must have confidence that his or her vehicle will perform with assurance at all times !.

2004 Volkswagen Touareg loss power own 3 occasions at 780 miles. Windshield wipers did not work in the intermittent mode, tire pressuring monitoring system malfunctioned. ** answer required*** the tire pressuring monitoring system was giving a false reading as if there was a problem with the tires.

Vw Touareg engine problems in the winter. I will send the info as vw dealer repair info and engine problems was recorded on tape/dvd.

My vehicle has an electronic throttle control which is extremely sensitive and from a standing start, does not respond to small incremental input on the accelarator pedal. Instead, once the pedal is depressed enough, the throttle responds and the vehicle lunges forward. This type of throttle response is dangerous, in that in a parking lot, or when parallel parking, or when in stop-and-go traffic during rush hour, it's virtually impossible to get the vehicle to move forward slowly (under 10 mph). Sooner or later, the action of the throttle will cause a driver to either hit another vehicle or perhaps a pedestrian. I have contacted vw of America and filed a complaint with them as well. They did not indicate if they are working on resolving this problem or not. My selling dealer was aware of similar complaints from toureg owners, but also has not received a service bulletin or recall from vw as to how to correct the problem. I would assume, since it's an electronic throttle, that the program embedded within some computer chip within the ecu will need to be replaced with one having a modified program to better control the throttle response curve.