Volkswagen CC loss of power problems

Filed May 31, 2023 · Electrical, Engine · MD

Vehicle stalls when accelerating or traveling at high rates of speed and it will lose power. It bumps and jolts to life. My RPM shoots up and and down. It lags to accelerate when the gas pedal is pressed to accelerate it suddenly jolts. Battery, Epc light, as well as engine light come on immediately.

Filed Dec 3, 2020 · Engine · 106,000 miles · VA

Flashing check engine light; epc light; car shaking; power loss; engine misfire. Vehicle was moving around 50mph at the time.

Filed Aug 19, 2019 · Engine · 55,000 miles · IL

Driving a 2012 vw cc with 57,000 miles. Driving on highway at 70 MPH and attempted to pass a slow moving truck. Accelerated quickly and mid pass the engine lost power and immediately went into "limp mode" with ecr light activated on the dash. Pulled over safely and turned off the engine. After collecting myself, I started engine to drive off highway. Car would not start. I sat a few moments in panic and tried again. The car started and I drove with ecr light on to next exit. The car was sluggish with little acceleration. Pulled to gas station and turned off again. Restarted and the engine rpms ran higher in idle so I turned off the car again. Let it sit and restarted and drove to auto zone where they did a code tester and was told p0229 underboost turbocharger was issue. Auto zone employee said he had seen it many times and its a known issue with 2.0 turbo engines in vw and audi. The report is attached. Auto zone reset the ecr light and the car was driven to final destination into arizona with no additional issues yet. Researching I found the following link https://www.cargurus.com/cars/discussion-t23523_ds493841. This link expresses the opinions of many drivers over the years experiencing this issue and how unsafe and difficult to is to resolve with many folks experiencing thousands of dollars in repairs and never finding a remedy. I am worried and shocked that the car engine can be turned off by a computer with no bypass for the driver. Extremely dangerous while driving.

Filed Jul 11, 2019 · Electrical, Fuel system · 4,700 miles · CA

Tl* the contact owns a 2011 volkswagen cc. The contact stated that there was a progressing intermittent electrical and fuel system failure with the vehicle. The battery was replaced more than four times. The contact stated that there was reduced power to the point that the vehicle could shut down at any moment, creating the risk for a potential crash. The vehicle was driven to city chevrolet of san diego (2111 morena blvd, san diego, ca 92110, (619) 597-1636). The dealer was unable to diagnose the cause of the failure, but indicated that it may be related to the federal safety agency campaign number: 17v509000 (fuel system, gasoline). The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified and did not assist. The approximate failure mileage was 4,700.

Filed Apr 8, 2019 · Engine · 200,000 miles · TX

The 2.0t tsi engine was made with a faulty timing chain tensioner which will fail and cause the timing chain to break causing immediate catastrophic engine damage putting the driver and occupants in danger because of loss of power and difficulty steering. I am extremely blessed that I noticed the car was acting funny and exited off the highway. It's ridiculous to me how the timing chain could cause that much damage to the engine. The engine obviously has been created with a faulty design, so now I'm expected to pay to replace a faulty engine with another faulty engine. It's extremely upsetting that after I sent my vehicle in for issues with a recall, fuel pump, that my vehicle would just self destruct like this

Filed Apr 3, 2019 · Electrical, Engine · 119,000 miles · IL

Vehicle loss of power while in motion, engine stall and drained battery.

Filed Mar 11, 2019 · Engine, Fuel system · 68,000 miles · PA

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 volkswagen cc. While driving 25 MPH, the vehicle started to decelerate and lost power. Also, the epc warning indicator illuminated. The contact was able to coast the vehicle to the side of the road. After thirty minutes, the vehicle restarted and was driven to the contact's residence. While the vehicle was idling, the failure recurred and the vehicle stalled. The vehicle was later taken to piazza volkswagen of ardmore (150 w lancaster ave, ardmore, pa 19003, (610) 896-8600) where it was diagnosed that the low pressure fuel pump failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated that the vehicle was recently repaired per the federal safety agency campaign number: 17v509000 (fuel system, gasoline). The manufacturer was notified of the failure but did not offer assistance. The approximate failure mileage was 68,000.

Filed Jan 31, 2019 · Driver assistance, Electrical · 119,000 miles · MS

The epc light came on while driving. The car suddenly lost power, I kept having to take my foot off the gas, and then reapply, it eventually got up to a decent speed on the interstate, then suddenly lost all power regardless of what I did. Was almost hit by an 18 wheeler. This is the most dangerous and ridiculous thing to build a car that tells it to shut off when it first senses a problem. You guys almost cost me my life!!! This is the first vw I've ever owned and was told I would love it. Well, I've had it for 2 day's and I can tell you it won't stay around long if this continues to be a problem. Once I managed to get pulled over I shut the car off waited a min or so and restarted it. The light went off and the car drove like nothing ever happened. I have two small boys and this is a big concern for me. I've read post after post about this being an issue, there has to be something vw can figure out as to what is the main cause, and surely there should be a bypass to keep the car from just shutting off while driving.

Filed Dec 4, 2018 · Fuel system · 90,000 miles · AE

I am a u.s service member stationed overseas. I will be serving overseas until november 2021. While driving on the autobahn with my family, I got on the left lane to pass a vehicle next to me. When I hit on the accelerator, out of the blue, my vehicle seems to lose power and the epc code on my dashboard started flashing. The vehicle started choking and slowed down instead. In confusion and the loud honking from the vehicles behind and next to me, I turned my hazard lights and switched to the far right lane. I immediately contacted the local vw dealership in germany and was informed that there was a recall on my vehicle for the fuel pump module and takata airbag but it could only be done in the states. I contacted omsc and they informed me that there was nothing they could do and I would have to contact vw america. When I contacted vw america and told them about my situation, I was informed I would have to wait until 2021 when I return to the u.s. I am worried for my safety and that of my family driving this vehicle. Any help would be appreciated.

Filed Aug 7, 2018 · Brakes, Engine · 95,000 miles · CA · crash · 1 injury

Fuel pump module and takata inflators while driving on the freeway on the way to work my car ended up losing power and completely shutting down while in motion. The sudden loss of power shut off all of my lights inside and out. As soon as this happens I begin to press on my brakes only to notice that my brakes felt like they were lacking pressure. The lack of pressure on the rotars made it very difficult to slow down and with there being no power also made it difficult to turn the wheel. I merged over toward the shoulder and ending up hitting some type of water run off dip that caused my car to bounce up and blow out my right front tire. The blowout was what helped me slow my car down and bring it to a stop. That caused damage to the body of my car. After stopping I tried checking if the car would turn on and it had no response. I then had it towed away. That was in 2016 and to this day the car hasn't been able to get fixed.