2000 Volkswagen Beetle: ABS light or ABS activating

Filed Jun 13, 2018 · Brakes · 100,000 miles · NY · fire

Tl* the contact owns a 2000 volkswagen beetle. While driving 55 MPH, smoke appeared from the rear of the vehicle and the ABS warning indicator illuminated. The contact coasted the vehicle to the side of the road. The contact noticed smoke coming from the rear driver's side area by the tire along with an abnormal odor. The contact stated that the odor smelled like coolant. The contact waited a few minutes and was able to drive the vehicle; however, the failure recurred when the vehicle accelerated between 40 and 60 MPH. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer or an independent mechanic for diagnostic testing or repair. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 100,000.

Filed Feb 8, 2012 · Airbags, Electrical · VA

I purchased my vw beetle in 2005 with the carfax - no accidents or major repairs. Within months, the engine light and airbag light came on. The windows stopped working. I've probably spent more than what I paid for it. I just spent over $1800 at vw springfield in virginia and the engine light is back on again after only a few months. In addition, the transmission codes were discovered by other repair shops, but they told me I had to go to the dealership for the repair. Neither vw springfield or vw woodbridge ever checked the transmission. In fact, woodbridge told me to trade it in and purchase a new one from them.some kind of light or problem occurs in my car every time I've taken my car to this dealership and vw woodbridge in virginia. They continue to claim that it is a different problem every time with the same components. What is the purpose for diagnostics? Every time I take my car to any of the vw dealership, I will have to bring the car in multiple times within months. Something is not right. Hundreds of people are complaining about the same issues, and no one is investigating this. It appears that vw is being protected from selling us poorly made vehicles with hefty repair costs, because it doesn't make since that it's the same problem for hundreds, perhaps thousands of people. Is it that these repairs are major and brake lights aren't. A recall for these vehicles from 99 on should be processed. The fact that vw was in the news recently as selling people cars they knew had engine, airbag, ABS, transmission, electrical, and window major problems is astonishing, because nothing is being done. I'm disgusted with volkswagen and they should be held accountable for all this. I understand that the economic situation, but people are in just as much a situation as manufacturing companies. We don't have the money to keep giving away to vw. It's a moral shame.

Filed Sep 1, 2010 · Electrical, Transmission · 110,000 miles · NC · fire

I have a 2000 vw beetle. I bought this car from the dealership with 100,000 miles on it. The first week it began acting crazy and I took it back to the dealership and I was told "sold as is". I have spent $3000 on this car fixing various electrical problems. This car is extremely unsafe. The transmission needs to be recalled immediately! It jumps and jerks at weird times and almost causes someone to rear end me. I've already invested a grand trying to resolve the transmission issue but the car will act fine for the first few days and then the problem will begin again. The third gear always slips and you get whiplash. It feels as if they gear is about to drop out of the car!! The engine misfires on the highway and no problem can be found by my mechanic. He tells me they are just random misfires! That is dangerous going down the highway at 70 mphs and the car shoot down to 50 and jerk on I-40 in winston salem. In the rain, it will jerk even worse, almost like the transmission is jumping out of the hood! My ABS lights will flash at weird times as well as my brake light. I have had my brakes checked, not the brakes. Something now stays on in the car that no mechanic can pinpoint which causes the battery to go dead everytime you turn the car off. The gauges tend to not want to work some of the time and the mileage will even stop reading. Sometimes the gas pedal does not connect and will stop accelerating eventhough your pushing on the gas upon take off. The alarm goes off at all times during the day and not for no reason and various times when I crank the car. To top this all off, the fuses on top of my battery caught on fire! I was told by my mechanic that this was a common problem, no problems could be blamed for this event. Someone needs to recall something before someone gets hurt!

Filed Mar 13, 2008 · Brakes · 82,500 miles · UT

Abs system has failed, as indicated by its dashboard warning light, which is on. Dealership diagnosis: faulty ABS controller/pump module, $825 to repair. Vw has an ABS recall, #02v031000, which covers 2000-2002 new beetle, golf/gti, jetta. Dealership claims my vehicle is not covered.

Filed Feb 23, 2008 · Brakes · 110,000 miles · AZ

2000 volkswagen new beetle. Abs and brake light and oil lights come on. Brakes fill like they're applying left then right. Beeper going off. Researched and found that many other owners of vw and audi's are having this problem and wind up having to pay $1300 to $1900.00 for a new ABS controller unit. This could have caused my wife to have an accident and vw should be liable to replace these defective units from these many cars that they made.

Filed May 11, 2006 · Brakes · CA

I own a 2000 vw new beetle. The vehicle currently has 38,000 miles on the odometer. Within the last month, 2 instrument lights come after the car has started and reaches a speed of 15 MPH. The 2 lights that come on have to do with the ABS braking system malfunctioning. I took the car to my local vw repair shop, they hooked up a tester to the vehicles computer, the computer fault said that the ABS hydraulic pump was out of tolerance. When I took the car to the local vw dealer and explained to them the fault, they told me that it would be approx. $1000.00 to remove and replace the pump. $300.00 labor, $700.00 for the part. While talking to the mechanic at the dealer, he told me that he has seen this problem quite often, not only the beetle, but on other vw models. I do not know how many other complaints you might have had for this problem, but I think that vw of america should be made aware of it. At this time, I have not had the repair done. I am hoping that you may be able to get vw to look into this issue and resolve it.

Filed Aug 22, 2005 · Brakes · 41,000 miles · VA

Abs and brake warning light started flashing a beeping while car still had more than 50% of original brakes left. No act or event seems to have precipitated the problem. Dealer service department believes that the ABS pump is malfunctioning. Regular application of brakes is unaffected. Unknown whether application of ABS system would cause brake failure.

Filed May 13, 2003 · Brakes · 32,000 miles · NJ

The vehicles ABS failed without warning.