Safety Score
88
Safe
Recalls
1
Complaints
40
NCAP Stars
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Recalls (1)
| Date | NHTSA ID | Component | Units | Completion | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-04 | 15V483000 |
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL | 415,825 | — | Details |
Owner Complaints (showing up to 50)
| Date | Component | Crash | Injuries | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-06 | SERVICE BRAKES | No | 0 | ABS Control Module short and failure occurred. Trouble codes generated include 01325 - Tire Pressure Monitoring Control… |
| 2022-05-09 | AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER CLOCKSPRING/SPIRAL CASSETTE | No | 0 | My Air bag light came on. Plus all the controls on my steering column do not work, including the horn. I called the V… |
| 2020-08-14 | FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | No | 0 | A MONTH AGO I NOTICED MY GTI WAS STALLING WHEN I TRIED TO ACCELERATE AFTER A STOP. WENT ON A DRIVE WITH A LOT OF HILL C… |
| 2019-08-14 | ENGINE | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 VOLKSWAGEN GTI. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHEN THE ENGINE WAS STARTED, IT RATTLED INSIDE. THE… |
| 2019-01-26 | SERVICE BRAKES | No | 0 | WHILE CAR WAS STOPPED BUT RUNNING THE VACUUM PUMP 'BROKE' WITH A LOUD GRINDING SOUND AND OIL STARTED LEAKING EVERYWHERE… |
| 2018-12-22 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | UPON TURNING MY CAR ON TODAY I RECEIVED 9 SEPARATE BULB OUT WARNINGS. AFTER A LITTLE WHILE WENT AND TRIED THE CAR AGAIN… |
| 2018-12-06 | AIR BAGS | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 VOLKSWAGEN GTI. WHILE DRIVING, THE AIR BAG WARNING INDICATOR REMAINED ILLUMINATED. THE CONT… |
| 2018-09-08 | ENGINE | No | 0 | ENGINE IS MISFIRING AT 84K MILES CAUSING THE CAR TO NEED A WHOLE NEW ENGINE REBUILD. I HAVE GOTTEN THE VEHICLE SERV… |
| 2018-09-01 | STRUCTURE:BODY | No | 0 | WHEN THE SUN BEATS DOWN ON MY PASSENGER DOOR OR ON A VERY HOT DAY, AND THE DOOR IS THEN OPENED, IT WILL NOT LATCH.IT WI… |
| 2018-09-01 | ENGINE | No | 0 | MY CAR IS DISPLAYING THE SAME SIMPTOMS LISTED AT SEVICE CODE 19K5 BUT VW IS REFUSING TO FIX THE PROBLEM. I TALKED TO A … |
| 2018-04-16 | AIR BAGS | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 VOLKSWAGEN GTI. UPON STARTING THE VEHICLE AND WHILE DRIVING, THE AIR BAG WARNING INDICATOR … |
| 2018-04-10 | ENGINE | No | 0 | AT 68,000 MILES ON MY 2012 VW GTI, I HAD TO HAVE THE TIMING CHAIN AND TENSIONER REPLACED. HOWEVER, WHEN I TRIED TO REPO… |
| 2018-03-27 | SERVICE BRAKES | Yes | 0 | CRUISE CONTROL & DISENGAGING FROM THE CRUISE CONTROL BY APPLYING THE BRAKE PEDAL. ON TUESDAY, MARCH 27TH, 2018 I WAS D… |
| 2017-12-16 | ENGINE | No | 0 | THE TIMING CHAIN BROKE ON MY VW GTI 2012 EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO INSTRUCTION FROM VW TO REPLACE THE CHAIN AT 97 K MILES… |
| 2017-11-29 | ENGINE | No | 0 | ON THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 29, 2017 I FOUND THAT MY 2012 VOLKSWAGEN GTI WOULD NOT START. THE VEHICLE HAS 73,530 MILES A… |
| 2017-10-09 | FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | No | 0 | ON OCTOBER 9TH, I ATTEMPTED TO START MY CAR. IT WOULD TURN OVER BUT WOULD NOT START. I HAD TO BE TOWED TO THE NEAREST V… |
| 2017-09-27 | ENGINE | No | 0 | WATER PUMP FAILED ON 3 SEPARATE OCCASIONS. HAD THE FUEL PUMP FAIL, AIR INTAKE, EXCESS CARBON BUILD UP ON VALVES, AND NO… |
| 2017-05-23 | ENGINE | No | 0 | P2015 INTAKE MANIFOLD RUNNER POSITION SENSOR/SWITCH CIRCUIT RANGE/ PERFORMANCE BANK 1. |
| 2017-02-08 | AIR BAGS | No | 0 | THE CLOCK SPRING IN MY STEERING WHEEL HAS BROKEN/QUIT WORKING, VOLKSWAGEN REFUSES TO REPLACE IT UNDER THE RECALL BECAUS… |
| 2017-02-05 | ENGINE | No | 0 | THE TIMING BELT TENSIONER IS FAULTY |
| 2016-11-16 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | No | 0 | SUNROOF EXPLODED LIKE A GUN SHOT WHILE TRAVELING ON THE FREEWAY 60 MPH. HAD JUST ENTERED EXPRESS LANE AND FOUND IT VERY… |
| 2016-06-12 | SERVICE BRAKES | No | 0 | WHILE DRIVING, I PRESSED THE BRAKES ONE TIME AND THEY WORKED, THE NEXT TIME THEY DIDN'T. NO SLOW DEGRADATION, THEY JUS… |
| 2016-06-01 | EXTERIOR LIGHTING | No | 0 | WAS DRIVING UNDER NORMAL, DRY CONDITIONS WHEN I BEGAN TO GET MDI NOTIFICATIONS ABOUT FAILED LIGHTING. A TOTAL OF 11 NO… |
| 2015-12-28 | ENGINE | No | 0 | The contact owns a 2012 Volkswagen GTI. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the low coolant … |
| 2015-09-24 | AIR BAGS | No | 0 | TODAY, WHILE BUYING A NEW CAR I WAS INFORMED OF AN OPEN PENDING RECALL ON THE STEERING WHEEL CLOCK SPRING. I HAVE HAD N… |
| 2015-03-02 | ENGINE | No | 0 | THIS MORNING ON THE WAY TO WORK, I EXPERIENCED SHAKING AND HESITATION UPON ACCELERATING. I TURNED AROUND AND WENT BACK… |
| 2015-01-29 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | WITHIN SECONDS OF STARTING, THE ENGINE STALLS (MAKING A SPUTTERING SOUND) AND DIES. THIS SEEMS TO HAPPEN ON WARM STARTS… |
| 2014-12-20 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | No | 0 | WHILE USING CRUISE CONTROL AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS, THE CRUISE CONTROL'S ACCELERATE AND DECELERATE BUTTONS OCCASIONALLY PERFO… |
| 2014-07-21 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | ENGINE STARTED SHAKING / RUNNING ROUGH. SIGNIFICANT POWER LOSS DURING ACCELERATION / TAKEOFF. I WAS NOT FAR FROM THE D… |
| 2014-07-16 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 VOLKSWAGEN GTI. WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS PARKED, THE CONTACT DISCOVERED THAT THE VEHICLE WOULD… |
| 2014-01-27 | UNKNOWN OR OTHER | No | 0 | IN THE FIRST INCIDENT DATED 1/27/2014, THE BLADE HOLDER BROKE OFF THE IGNITION KEY. MY VW DEALER REPLACED THE IGNITION … |
| 2013-12-15 | ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 VOLKSWAGEN GTI. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICEL DAILED TO START. THE FAILURE RECURRED N… |
| 2013-10-24 | VISIBILITY:SUN/MOON ROOF ASSEMBLY | No | 0 | DRIVING DOWN NEW MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE IN BATON ROUGE, HEADING WEST, HEAR A LOUD BANG, AND A FEW PIECES OF GLASS CAM… |
| 2013-09-09 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | No | 0 | IN SLOWING TO PASS THROUGH HEAVY TRAFFIC I DISENGAGED CRUISE CONTROL (WHICH HAD BEEN SET TO 70MPH) BY HITTING THE BRAK… |
| 2013-02-14 | TIRES | No | 0 | UPON SLOWING TO MY EXIT FROM THE HIGHWAY SEVERAL WARNING LIGHTS CAME ON. I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING A FLAT AND PULLED IMME… |
| 2012-12-31 | VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | No | 0 | WHILE PULLING AWAY FROM A FULL STOP (LIGHT) THE ENGINE RPM SURGED TO APPROXIMATELY 4000 AND THE TRANSMISSION INDICATOR … |
| 2012-08-08 | SERVICE BRAKES | Yes | 0 | VEHICLE IS A MANUAL 6 SPEED. TWO INCIDENTS - FIRST, THE CAR WOULDN'T ENGAGE INTO REVERSE FROM A STOP UNTIL THE VEHICLE… |
| 2012-06-08 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD AND WAS COMING TO A STOP SIGN. I HAD THE CLUTCH ALL OF THE WAY IN AND SHIFTED INTO NEUTRAL … |
| 2012-02-01 | VISIBILITY/WIPER | No | 0 | TL* THE CONTACT OWN A 2012 VOLKSWAGEN GTI. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHEN IT RAINED HARD, THE WINDSHIELD RETAINED WATER A… |
| 2011-09-26 | POWER TRAIN | No | 0 | DURING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC, I HAD TO SLOW DOWN A LITTLE IN ORDER TO ALLOW THE CAR NEXT TO ME TO PASS SO I COULD CHANGE LA… |