Jaded Jetta
This will be long. I have a 2001 jetta VR6. I drove it off the lot with 66k for about $12,000 (I’m still paying) in October 2006. These have been my problems…
I could have built Noah’s Arc in my car! There was about 3″” of standing water in my floor board! Appearently there was a clog in the drain of the sunroof. This was like 2 weeks after driving it off the lot.
I drove it through winter, no problems. Until a week after my warranty was up. My AC and engine fans stopped working. It made me hate leather seats in South Carolina. I drove all through out the summer with a car that would over heat, and once flashed “”STOP CAR”". There are 2 fans over my engine, neither would come on and as a fail safe for the engine the AC wouldn’t come on either. My car would over heat and leave me on the interstate with the hood popped letting it cool and I end up later for work again. Finally in September, I had some money and took it to a mechanic, he said I’d have to take it to the dealer. Dealer said it was a short in the fuse block.
They replaced the block for 200 dollars. Then 3 days later the EPC light came on, yeah go search the problems wiht that! Now, the lights dim intermittantly, the blinker flashes fast, sometimes I have brake lights, the memory for the seat & mirrors doesn’t work, my cruise control crapped out on me, acceleration is weak…
I called the dealer when it first happened, he said to bring it on in but couldn’t guarantee that I wouldn’t be charged. That light never came on before they worked on it. The EPC light comes and goes, sometimes for days not seeing it. I’ve read horror stories about this little light. I was happy (at first) trading in my ‘95 Saturn for a ‘01 VW.
I just found out tonight about my brake lights, so I’m calling tomorrow. We’ll see how this goes.
