2009 Volkswagen GTI: engine stalls while driving

Filed Oct 17, 2014 · Transmission · 51,000 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 volkswagen gti. While at a stop light, the vehicle stalled and all of the warning indicators illuminated. The contact mentioned that the vehicle was repaired according to the federal safety agency campaign number: 09v333000 (power train); however, the failure recurred numerous times. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic. The technician stated that the dsg gear box needed to be repaired. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 51,000.

Filed Dec 4, 2012 · Fuel system · 89,000 miles · MI

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 volkswagen gti. The contact stated while traveling 65 MPH, the vehicle suddenly stalled. The contact was able to merge to the side of the road to restart the vehicle where it began to function normally. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was confirmed that the fuel pump had failed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted about the issue. The failure mileage was 89,000 and the current mileage was 190,000.

Filed Aug 29, 2012 · Engine · 36,600 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 volkswagen gti. The contact stated that while traveling between 40-60 MPH, the engine stalled without warning. The vehicle was restarted after the failure. The failure recurred three times. The vehicle was taken to the dealer three times where the dealer confirmed that the ignition coil needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 36,600 and the current mileage was 47,000.

Filed Jul 17, 2009 · Transmission · 7,000 miles · VA

Purchased 2009 vw gti with dsg transmission in october 2008. Transmission seemed fine until about 7000 miles. Dsg started to have jerky/hard shifts in lower gears 1/2/3 and below 10mph would have surging during light acceleration or coasting to stop. From stopped position would also jerk forward with only a slight throttle input. Problems seems to be only after the car has been driven15-20 minutes and gets hot. When the car is cold it drives normal. Symptoms also seem worse during bumper to bumper traffic when more demand on lower gears and more heat. There is sometimes a noticeable clunking sound when dsg is down shifting from 2-1 and sometimes after the car has come to a stop and need to creep forward (still in 1st gear) will get the clunking sound and like the car almost stalls. All these symptoms happen in either d/s/m mode but reverse gear has no problems. Have asked the vw dealer where I bought the car about this problem and they say they can not reproduce the symptoms.

Filed Jul 7, 2009 · Transmission · MO

I purchased my 2009 vw gti in august of 2008 and have been using it as my daily driver since its purchase. Not knowing the technicalities and specifications of the dsg transmission I drove the car as usual until after having the car for 2 or 3 months when I went to start the car the prnds was flashing in the dash and the key would not turn to unlock (I could attempt to start it though) nor would it remove from the ignition. After 3 failed attempts to start it I got out of the car and returned an hour later to start it and it worked without any problems. I made an appointment with my dealer and they "fixed the issue" my replacing a magnetic sensor in the triptronic unit. I drove the car as usual for a few months and everything was fine (or so I thought). I had a friend ride with me who owns another vw with a dsg transmission and he commented on how bad the shifts were and how it rode bad, so I began to investigate the issues (this being the only dsg car I have driven I did not know my car was driving bad). Turns out the car had a faulty mechatronic unit that was causing my car to have rough shifts, "lurching" motions while in 1st gear and reverse, and then would feel as though the car was going to stall and cut out. I had become accustomed to driving the car as such and had to take extra precautions when parallel parking so my car wouldn't "lurch" and hit the car on either side while parallel parking. You can read about multiple other people with the same problem with a late model vw gti (particularly 2008 and 2009) on a vw enthusiast forum: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zeroforum?id=988.