2019 Volkswagen GTI: engine stalls while driving

Filed Feb 21, 2021 · Transmission · 21,000 miles · VA

Vehicle stalls at low speeds. I have noticed my car stall when leaving a parking spot where I will get halfway out of the park, and then the RPM goes to 0 and I have to put it into park, turn the key, and after a longer than normal startup time, it goes.

Filed Aug 9, 2020 · 13,168 miles · CA

My gti has a manual transmission. It will occasionally stall while coming to a stop even though the clutch pedal is fully depressed. It has happened with the gear shift in reverse as well as in neutral, in either case the clutch pedal was fully depressed and it shouldn't be stalling in these circumstances.

Filed Jun 4, 2020 · Transmission · 5,800 miles · CA

Car stalls at low speeds, particularly coming to a stop. Happens with clutch in or in neutral. Has been happening since day 1 of ownership of brand new vehicle with 80 miles on odometer. Continues at 10 months of ownership with 6k miles on odo. The problem is intermittent. It did not occur for 6 months between december 2019 and june 2nd 2020. On june 3rd vw installed 24fd update. Upon driving the car home from the dealership, the car stalled 3 times. Twice at stoplights in 1st gear with clutch in. Once in neutral after I pulled into my driveway.

Filed Apr 23, 2020 · Engine · 250 miles · FL

Vehicle stalls when coming to a stop with foot depressed on clutch.

Filed Mar 22, 2020 · Engine, Transmission · 762 miles · PA

I have a 2019 volkswagen gti 6 speed manual transmission. While I was out running errands to the local food store and hardware store, I came to a complete and full stop at a stop sign. At this time the car was in neutral with the clutch pedal disengaged and the brake pedal depressed. I noticed the car had a soft stall. This happened a total of about 6 times. It is almost as if the car has the auto stop feature that turns the engine off at a full and complete stop but my car is not equipped with that option. I feel as if the engine is the problem because it is cutting off. I also feel it could be the transmission thinking that the car is in a different gear and not enough rpms to sustain that gear. I also feel it could be a vacuum leak which is not sending the right signals to the engine computer or something else. At the time of this happening it was sunny and in mid fifties in temperature.

Filed Mar 3, 2020 · Engine · 640 miles · CA

My 2019 vw gti-s is equipped with a dsg transmission. I was driving it in manual sport mode on the freeway on sunday 1 march 2020. After getting off of the freeway and onto the city surface streets, the car stalled when I came to a stop. I thought it was because I had not turned off the engine start/stop defeat feature off but that was not the case. Another 6-7 stalls occurred as I drove the car the few miles back home after dropping off a friend. There were 4-5 previous individual incidents prior to sunday. On monday 2 march while I drove the car home on the freeway in stop and go commute traffic there were no problems; however after exiting the freeway the car stalled again 3 separate times after I came to a full stop at the signals and stop signs leading to my home. As far as I am concerned, this is a dangerous situation and I am worried since the principal driver of this car will eventually be my wife. She is often driving on the streets of the san francisco bay area. It is easy to get read ended as the driver in back of you expects you to accelerate quickly away from the green signal light or stop sign after you have stopped. It takes time to shift the gear lever back into neutral or park to start the car again. Since I am putting in the "break-in" miles on the car I have experienced this exact situation and have gotten honked for not moving away swiftly from the intersection as one normally would on the city streets. The gti currently has 671 miles on the odometer. I am taking the car in to the dealership today and hoping that they will buy it back so I can get my wife into a safer model.

Filed Mar 2, 2020 · Engine · NJ

The car is randomly stalling out on me. After reading several articles on the internet I now see this is a known issue. It is currently at my local volkswagen service center. It happened after my first 10k mike service and has stalled 4 or 5 times in the past two days once on a highway. This is extremely concerning.

Filed Feb 21, 2020 · Engine · 220 miles · WA

Manual transmission car stalls at low speeds and at idle. Happens with the clutch fully to the floor, in neutral, and also while in gear. Car has stalled 3 times in sequence sitting at a red light. Also has stalled after getting off highway 6 times now, each time while slowing for a red light or stopped. Total of 9 or so stalls now. Car is brand new, purchased with 33 miles on it. Now up to about 300 miles total.

Filed Feb 18, 2020 · Engine · 160 miles · WA

Car stalls at slow speeds and when fully stopped. The stall has happened 4 times: twice while moving at roughly 5mph towards a red light, and twice while stopped at red lights. In each case, the clutch pedal was fully on the floor and brake pedal was engaged. It is brand new car and the first stall happened at roughly 160 miles on the odometer. The last stall was at 191.

Filed Feb 16, 2020 · Engine · 550 miles · WV

Car stalled twice sitting in neutral at a stop sign.

Filed Feb 12, 2020 · Engine · 822 miles · CA

New vehicle with less than 1000 miles, stalls at low speed without warning. Must restart car to get it moving again. Happens very often with clutch depressed/not depressed, whether in gear or in neutral. Happens in an intersection will eventually lead to accidents.

Filed Feb 11, 2020 · Engine · 250 miles · NC

Car stalled when in neutral at a stoplight.