Volkswagen Suspension FrontVolkswagen Suspension Front Reports
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| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1985 | Shake In Front-end Continual Noise during sharp turns. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1995 | Vehicle Pulls To The Left while driving at any speed, dealer informed owner of goodyear tire problem, goodyear said the problem is with |
| VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1996 | While Traveling 30mph, Vehicle overcame with smoke, impairing vision. driver lost control, resulting in an accident. air bags did deploy |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1993 | The Wheels Are Out Of line have to replace the tires on the vehicle too often. tt |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1994 | Vehicle Has Had Numerous Front end alignments, and front end is still not correct. tt |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Vehicle Has A Squeaking Noise coming from suspension when steering or going over bumps or braking. *ak consumer stated the |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | There Is A Creaking Sound when turning wheel in both directions.*ak consumer states that the creaks are also happening when going |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1998 | Vehicle Was Involved In A frontal collision. upon impact, front end caught on fire. vehicle was totalled.*ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | When Coming Down A Hill or stopping hard sounds like front of car is going to collapse.*ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1995 | While Traveling On Highway And without any indication front end had broken away from vehicle, causing engine to drop. please provide |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | While Driving, There Is a looseness in the front end, consumer could hear knocking noise like metal banging against something, took to |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2000 | There Is A Noise In front, underneath vehicle while wheels are in motion. dealership is aware of problem. |
| VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 2002 | While Driving 55-65 Mph Steering wheel started to shake and vehicle pulled to the right. *akthe dealer replaced the cu axle and related |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Steering Pulls To The Right and always has, mostly during braking, the rotors need to be replaced while the front brakes are at |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Front End Knocking Started At 35,000 worse when turning. brought to dealer front right and left lower control arms needed to be |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2000 | The Boot Covering The Ball joint for the tie rod ends and both front and rear upper control arms has failed on both sides of |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | This Is The 2nd Time in less than 6 months that my control arms have failed. i have a stock car, with stock |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Bushing Failure On All 4 front lower control arms. these bushings gradually became loose and began squeaking, accompanied by clunking over low-speed |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | The Right Front Suspensions Is very noisy over bumps, including just pushing down on the right front fender. after taking this to |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Clunking Noise From Front Suspension. occurs when accelerating and braking. also general looseness in steering that was not there when car |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Several Suspension Components Have Required replacement within 70,000 miles. none have yet been catastrophic. but possibly because as a car |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Front Suspension Made Very Annoying creaking sound. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | No Summary Listed For Above vehicle. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | No Summary Listed For Above vehicle. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Sypmtoms Are Creaking, Groaning from front suspension |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | There Are A Large Number of these failures-check www.clubb5.com. lots of these are being replaced out of pocket by owners. please |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | 1)trunk Light Stopped Working Just past the warranty period, wiring problem, cost to repair $200. 2)abs light flashes continuously, about 1 |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | No Summary Listed For Above vehicle. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Have Contacted Vw Customer Service and requested for coverage since this is quite a common problem on passat. however, vw refused to cover, |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | The Handling Of The Vehicle became erratic and noisy. the dealership informed me that this was a common problem with these vehicles and with |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | No Description Given. nlm |
| VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 2001 | Have Experienced Squeaking Sounds In car for months from the right side of car while going around corners. 2/26/02 went to dealership. |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | No Summary Listed For Above vehicle. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | No Summary Listed For Above vehicle. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2001 | All Major Problems Have Been taken care of quite well, however i have had a constant creaking noise in both driver's and passenger's door |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | No Summary Listed For Above vehicle. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Very Common Problem. suggest investigation/recall.no safety defect listed. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Suspension Clunking Noise - Taken to dealer 5+ times, no resolution. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | 07/21/01 Scheduled Service For Clunking/rattling noise in front suspension over small road imperfections and secondly tie rod recall. mechanic replaced tie rods, |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2000 | Sun Roof Leaks - Drains cleaned by dealer twice - still leaking. driver's seat back moves forward when brake applied. dealer claims this |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Car Had Been Recalled For repairing defective tie rod - once fixed the entire front end and tires have gone bad and the dealer estiimates |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2000 | Dealer Has Failed Several Times to correct steering problem. car has constant vibration and steering wheel shake on turns. front end aligned (not |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | I Have Knowledge Of These parts failing on at least 100 vw passats 1998-2001. i'm sure there are more. there should |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Known Issue With Vwoa, also happens on audi a4/a6. vw refuses to repair problem, but they have a repair kit for the |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | No Summary Listed For Above vehicle. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Cost Of Repairs = $729. 08. no safety defect mentioned. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Being A Member Of A vw passat forum, i know many other owners with the same failure. no safety defect. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2000 | Vehicle Pulled To The Right on date of purchase,aftr 3 attempts to align front end with no remedy mfg replaced vehicle. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | The Front Suspension Problem Has happened to many passat owners, vw has failed to issue a recall. this is a clear |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1999 | 30k Service, Reported To dealer that steering wheel shakes when applying brakes...asked dealer to check on alighment problems. dealer |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Quadra-link Suspension Produces Metalic Rubbing noise with vehicle motion. dealer has diagnosed problem as quadra-link suspension failure based on inspection and previous experience. |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Squeaking Noise From Front End. out-of town vw dealer said "ball joints" $800 to repair. "dangerous to drive". contacted vw |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1999 | This Car Was Purchased New in july 2000. it is the newly redesigned jetta. since it's purchase the car has been in the |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Vechicle Was At Dealer For 30 days on final attempt to repair the suspension noise. noise was duplicated by shop foreman, service advisor |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2000 | Dealership Has Attempted To Fix creaking suspension noise 3 times. unable to diagnose problem, or fix it. problem is getting worse. |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Heard Suspension Type Noise When exiting vehicle and pushing on front end. dealer only charged me 50% on parts since it shouldn't have failed |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1999 | Front Bumper Has Been Pulled loose twice in less than two years while backing from driveway. there is also transmission guard scratches. first |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Suspension Now Makes Loud Noises, indicating imminent failure. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Vwofa Does Not Acknowledge That this is a widespread problem on both audi a4 and vw passats even though there is overwhelming evidence that there |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | This Issue Was A Recall for all audi a-4's (same as vw passat) as well as for many passats. my vin number did |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1995 | Less Than 48hours After I bought the car - it shut down on me in brooklyn- it would not start or turnover, so i |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1992 | No Summary Listed For Abov evehicle. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1999 | The Car Bottoms In The front-right side out when 4 passengers are in the car and you travel over relatively small bumps in pavement. |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | While Attempting To Make A 180-degree turn, coming from a parked position on the street, the front left wheel disconnected from the car |
| VOLKSWAGEN NEW BEETLE 1999 | While Traveling On I70w Through indiana, vehicle bottomed out extremely hard resulting in momentary loss of control. incident occurred during clear daylight |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1996 | Front End Misaligned. |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2000 | Vehicle Pulled To The Side when hitting bumps and seemed to hit bumps harder, consumer took it to the dealer who tightened the front |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Consumer Went To The Dealership due to steering/suspension alignment problems, the dealership performed recall service without proper authorization which cost the consumer additional money |
| VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 1999 | Vehicle Is Pulling To The right. *slc |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1990 | Front End Vibration Caused The tire to wear out and wheels to bend. yh |
| VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1996 | Tires Worn Prematurely Due To alignment pulling. |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1996 | Intermittent Brake Failure. in addition, front end vibrates and vehicle pulls to the right/passenger's seat came off the track/ steeering wheel |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1994 | Camber Out Of Alignment. |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1995 | Vehicle Makes Popping Noise When wheel turned, due to failed wheel bearings and front end being out of alignment. |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1995 | Vehicle Pulls To Right When accelerating, pulls to left when not accelerating. *dsh |
| VOLKSWAGEN CABRIOLET 1985 | Premature Metal Fatigue Of Front end. *skd |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1992 | Misalignment, Causing Steering Problems. |
| VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 2006 | 2006 Vw Golf Tdi 70k miles of normal driving conditions in illinois. failure of both driver and passenger side coil springs |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2002 | My Right Front Coil Spring snapped due to a defective spring. i opened my car door and sat in my car and heard a |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2006 | Sub-frame Shifting Causing A Popping noise when turning. leads to loose steering, wander, and severe flexing of front end when going over |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2002 | Broken Left Front Suspension Coil spring - spontaneously broken - car left undriven in closed private garage for ~2 weeks, found after ~2 weeks |
| VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG 2004 | Driving 2004 Touareg Equipped With air suspension. speed 55 starting right hand sweeping turn the right side air suspension blew out dropping the front |
| VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 2005 | Car Was Driven On A highway, approx 60 mph when a clunk was heard from the front suspension and sound of metal falling on |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2006 | Transmission Lurch Forward, Sometimes skip the shifts,also shifts are delayed or eng rev,too high and downshifthing it kicks 2 to 1and there's |
| VOLKSWAGEN PHAETON 2004 | Control Arm Gaskets Corroded On all upper and lower control arms leading to metal on metal. *tr |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2002 | I Am Writing To Complain about the control arms on the vw 2002 passat. i recently replaced an upper and lower control arm |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | I Own A 1999 Volkswagen passat in which the control arms, tie rod ends, ball joints, and bushings are failing. |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2000 | Creaking, Groaning, Clunking, squeaking out of the front end, most notably at low speeds over broken pavement, speedbumps, coming |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2001 | Front Ball Joint Failure At approx. 35,000 miles. then a lower control arm failure at 95,000 miles. old control arm |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2003 | Car Went In For Brake job at 39,000 miles. mechanic found that both front cv joints were cracked and front axles and |
| VOLKSWAGEN GTI 2006 | 1. I Serviced My car at an authorized dealer who performed a lower suspension bushing replacement on the front strut suspension. this was |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | The Lower Control Arms On my 1998 vw passat are defective and dangerous according to my mechanic. vw refuses to replace them even though |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2003 | Tl*the Contact Owns A 2003 volkswagen passat. the vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer for a recall repair. the technician |
| VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG 2004 | Screeching Brakes. The brakes were screeching for the past three months and the vw dealership replaced the pads and disc. after |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | On My Vehicle, The passenger front lower control arm is failing at the ball joint. there are loud screeches at low speeds |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2001 | I Have A '01 Vw passat. i had to go to the vw dealer today since i was hearing a pinging noise when i |
| VOLKSWAGEN GTI 2007 | I Own A 2007 Gti which has what i believe and many other owners, a defective subframe of the vehicle. my incident began |
| VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 2002 | I Was Driving Down The street at approximately 20 miles per hour when suddenly my car began to sound like i was dragging metal across |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2001 | Failure Of Multiple Front Control arms in 2001 vw passat. was given quote of nearly $2100 to repair control arms. was |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Tl*the Contact's Son Owns A 1999 volkswagen passat. while driving at an unknown speed, the contact's son heard metal rubbing near the |
| VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG 2004 | Message Reads "fault-running Gear-suspension-workshop" subsequent check at dealership revealed a leak in the right front air spring that needs total replacement. we |
| VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG 2004 | My 2004 Vw Touareg Has been diagnosed with premature failure of the front suspension bushings. the vehicle has never been used off-road. |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2001 | The Squeaking And Creaking Of the front end of my vw passat 2001 is horrendous. my local vw and the vw of a have |
| VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG 2005 | Tl*- The Contact Owns a 2005 volkswagen touareg. the contact explained that the vehiclewas constantly pulling to the right when driving |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2006 | When Driving My New 06 passat 2.0t at 35 mph+, w/ passengers (avg. weights - approx 140 ea.) the car bottoms |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2002 | Way To Many To List here. i have had problems from the start. more than $7000 worth of repair (plus more that was |
| VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 2001 | While Driving Home From Work at about 12 am in the right hand lane on highway 217 in tigard oregon, just passed exit 4 |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2007 | Upon Receipt Of The Vehicle from the dealership, a shuttering or vibration has been noticed between 65 and 80 mph. original diagnostic |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2006 | On 7/13/06 I Purchased A new 2006 vw passat from bert smith vw in st. petersburg, florida. i took delivery at |
| VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG 2004 | Volkswagen 2004 Touareg Sport Utility 4d has serious alignment problems resulting in premature tire wear on all 4 tires! front 2 tires are down |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 2006 | I Recently Purchased A New vw jetta tdi. from day one, the car's front suspension felt and sounded "loose." at |
| VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG 2004 | Alignment: Since Its Purchase The car was not properly aligned. i took it to the dealer several times, at the 5,000 miles, |
| VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG 2004 | Door Handles Stick On All four doors. last year, my husband was in the passenger seat as i went around a corner, |
| VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE 2003 | Dt: The Contact Owns A 2003 volkswagen beetle. the contact stated while driving and making a left hand turn the consumer |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2001 | Dt: On August 25 onwer was upset because he had to replace tie rods, and had the vehicle aligned. he said |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | I Own A 1999 Vw passat wagon. there have been some recalls about the front end. i did have it checked at least |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Normal Use Of '99 Vw passat with an odometer reading of 99,650 lead to the failure of ront contorl arms and tie rod ends. |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2003 | I Have A 2003 Vw passat sw. about a year after i bought it i noticed when it started to get cold in |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2000 | Catastrophic Failure Of Front End parts (tie-rods, upper links) when car had 59,000 miles on it. *ak |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | Groaning And Moaning Noise Emanating from the front of the car when turning. *jb |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2000 | Over The Past Couple Of years i have noticed various noises coming from the front end of my vehicle. upon inspection, no |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Front Suspension Creaks Constantly While driving car. this appears to be common complaint by other owners, but volkswagen (vw) unwilling to admit |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2002 | Front End/engine Protector Has Separated from vehicle while driving. *bf in both cases, the turn bolts on the left front |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | The Front End Is "creaky. " there is considerable noise, usually when turning. i suspect that the bushings in the multi-link |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | I Purchased A Pre-owned 1998 vw passat sedan with 36,000 miles on it in 2002 which was a great deal!! or so i thought. |
| VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 2000 | Front Suspension Is Making A cranking noise while driving. this could result in lost of steering. there is a recall on this |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | The 1999 Passat Has Had a number of problems from excessive oil consumption, electrical problems,water pump defects, front end assembly and transmission |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1998 | I Took My Car To jim ellis volkswagen of atlanta to get the tie rods replaced as part of the recall campaign on my 98 |
| VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1999 | Recall Letter For Replacement Of tie rods on 1999 volkswagen passat. *mr the front end of the vehicle squeaked. |
| VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 1998 | The Suspension Strut System Failed. the manufacturer redesigned the suspension strut but the consumer was not notified of this change. |
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