After turning on the vehicle, I turned the steering wheel and heard a click, then the airbag malfunction warning light came on immediately. Horn and all steering wheel buttons have stopped working (radio control, cruise control etc). and airbag warning light remains on. This seems obviously to be the broken clock spring problem. Vehicle has about 105,000 miles on it. I am not sure if the steering area was ever serviced during a previous safety recall, but I have never had any service on the steering wheel or issues in that area.
2015 Volkswagen Golf Sportwagen electrical complaints
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I have a 2015 vw golf sportwagen with about 47k miles. 9 months ago I had my clock spring go bad in my vehicle, which rendered my airbag to be disabled. The replacement was covered under the 3yr/36k mike warranty that comes with the car new (this is a tdi model, so the in-service date is may 2018 -car has approx. 32k miles on it at the time of repair). Today (march 2021), I had my clock spring go bad again, which disabled my airbag, again. Vw tells me that my model specifically isn't covered under an existing extended warranty that has been issued to resolve this problem. This is a widespread problem with almost all models of vw from 2010-2018 and the federal safety agency is well aware. My model of clock spring, although used in many of these other models that are coverage by this extended warranty, is not covered by vw. I'm not driving with no airbags until I can afford to replace out of pocket. This is a known issue and should cover all models which use that same clock spring that is the problem.
Vw installed a radio spec for another model car in my vehicle the replacement part is a new part number this problem created a rolling screen on my display very distracting while driving I asked vw costumer care to replace the wrong part installed at there factory vw refused to cover the cost ,this is a safety issue when your main display in the car is flashing and the screen is rolling and will lead to accidents I believe vw should have fixed this as a urgent safety matter thats it is distracting their drivers
Information screen / radio, stop working properly back up back up cmera screen doesn't work.
This car was purchased as a certified vehicle after receiving the emissions fix. After less than 10,000 miles and only one year of ownership, all my dashboard warning lights came on (including airbag error) and the floor mats were soaked when I started my car after a severe rain storm. I was told the sunroof drains were plugged and caused the electrical issues. The drain being plugged with debris is considered an external factor and therefore the repairs are not covered by the warranty of this certified car. The owner's manual indicates that maintenance on the sun roof drains is recommended at 40,000 miles. As noted, the car was below the 40,000 mark but had sat idle for over a year between the time it was bought back from the original customer to when it was sold as a certified vehicle.
Steering column control module with clock spring failed,/ miles on car 54302. All buttons on steering wheel stopped working. No horn, air bag light on as malfunction, reports state hazardous to drive... Took it in for replacement--cost 668.52. Other vw have had this problem as a recall.. Please add to list of vw having this problem and insist vw pay or recall to have them fix this dangerous problem. I pulled into parking spot when it all stopped. Good this I was back home and not still up in the sierras
The push start button not working need press multiple time just to start the car also apply when I need turn the car off . I need press push and start multiple time just to turn off the car.
Problem noticed december 12th when one by one all the warning lights came on including the air bag, the stabilization system, the headlight system and others. Then when I stopped at a red light, the car would not shift out of 1st gear. I ended up having to have my vehicle towed back home. The next day a mechanic scanned it and said there was a problem in the emitions system which disabled the car by making it not able to drive. I then had it towed to the nearest vw dealer who told me that the whole problem, including the failure of the safety systems, was caused by a leak in the sunroof. Water ran down the a-piller and shorted some wiring. They gave me a print out where vw admits that this is the result of a production defect but they said that if the defect was not found before the warranty ran out that vw would not allow it to be fixed unless I paid them over $1,0000. As it is, I had to pay them $240 to take the trim off of the a-piller and dry the wiring out. This made the car run normally for the time being but now I am afraid that it will happen again.
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