2008 Volkswagen Beetle: grinding or squealing brakes

Filed Oct 11, 2011 · Visibility · 38,404 miles · AR

Window regulators come apart and make a grinding noise. Windows fall into the door and will not go back up. Parts take at least a week to come in. Quite a problem in a convertible, the windows go up and down every time you open the doors. This has happened twice in the last 9 months. Volkswagen has no recall or defect reported. Volkswagen makes the part and gives it a 12 month or 12,000 mile manufacturers warranty but offers no guarantee the window regulators will not fail again and does not offer to cover the cost of repair when they do, outside 12 mos/12k miles. At $250 a door on a 3 year old car, I'm not looking forward to replacing these when they fail again.

Filed Feb 14, 2011 · Body, Lights · 15,000 miles · AR

Rear suspension makes squeaking noise. Tire pressure indicator on after 2 hours of driving. Head lights too weak bulb for front or rear or reverse always needs replacement inside hand rest too weak design always break. Vw service station too expensive and wants money only. 2)fix it yourself. Keep doing it till I cannot sell it. 3) fix it your self. Yes would like to have the manual so I can do it professional myself. 4)in little rock the north point service station is the worst vw station.they only want money even to fix or in inspect or find out what is at fault. Buying vw means do the repairing yourself. Parts too expensive.

Filed Sep 16, 2010 · Electrical, Lights · 5,000 miles · GA

I currently own a 2008 vw beetle and it's an automatic. When first getting the car I could tell the transmission seemed not smooth at all. When driving through an intersection from a red light my car had trouble when pressing the gas. It had a pause. Then when going down the high way when I was changing lanes to go infront of someone I pressed the gas and my car jumps. This happens all the time. Not something that happens once and a while. It happens every time I drive my car. The dealership replaced the transmission at on 5,000 but the problem still happens! Then going down the road in the pouring rain my windshield wipers stopped working. They had to replace the motor. When I went through a drive through I rolled down my window and it made a horrible grinding noise that I thought the window was going to shatter. They had to replace the window motor. Then the same exact thing happened to the passenger side front and back window. Both my head lights keep going through $20.00 bulbs. They had to replace the fuses. On my convertible top the side covers stopped going in and out. They had to replace those. Then on my way to work all the lights for the what gear you were in blinking. Which caused me to have the car towed because it was running in emergency transmission mode. They had to replace something with that. Right after that was replaced going down the road my car made a grinding noise so I turned around to take it back and it was something with the fuel intake that they had to replace. The dash board lights go on and off. The dealership said they could not find anything wrong with that.

Filed May 13, 2010 · Body, Engine · 29,900 miles · MI

I was driving on a paved road on my way to work. My car was making an awful grinding noise, so I was taking it easy and made a note to take it to the dealer very soon. I heard a jingling noise, like something metal falling. It repeated a second time. 100 yards down the road, my car started making a hard clunking noise. It felt like a flat tire. I pulled off and inspected the tires, which were fine. I looked underneath to see if there was anything suspicious. My engine looked a little low, but I didn't know how low was normal. The tow truck arrived and said my engine fell out. The bolts supporting the engine had sheared off. The vehicle is only two years old with under 30k miles on it. I've owned it for a year. I have never hit anything, gone off road, or bottomed out in the vehicle. Nothing at all that would have caused this to happen. The dealership is insisting that I had a collision and refusing to pay for repairs.

Filed Jan 31, 2008 · Electrical, Visibility · CT

2008 volkswagen beetle with broken air vents. Consumer states that the vehicle came from the manufacturing plant with a defect. She feels that she should be able to get a new vehicle because of this defect. *kb the consumer also heard a squealing noise coming out of another vent when it was closed. The windshield wipers worked intermittently and the speedometer and dashboard lights shut off.