When trying to acclerate vehicle would hesitate, causing a distracion to the consumer. Dealer has been notified. *ak
2001 Volkswagen Jetta acceleration complaints
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When pulling out into traffic the car will not accelerate, then suddenly starts to accelerate. The car stutters before taking off this has caused my wife to almost get into numerous accidents. We have taken it down to the dealership numerous times, the first time they said it was a clogged valve and they would order it and call me back when it was in stock. When I called them 2 months later they said we can schedule an appointment the part should be in stock, but they don't know what part it was exactly since it was not listed on the work order. When I took it back they said there was a service bulletin that stated when the brake is depressed and released the car will hesitate before going because the car still thinks the brake is on, but they could not reproduce this or any other problem on our car. We have also had problems with the steering wheel controls, after taking the car to the dealership 5 times they finally "checked" the controls and found something wrong.
Often when accelerating, my automatic jetta will seem to go into neutral, the engine will be roaring and the RPM will fly up into the red zone on the dail. This happens at speeds from 5 MPH- 75 MPH. It always occurs as I go to accelerate, otherwise I can find no other similarities of occurrences.
On oct. 7,2001 ( four days after taking delivery), I was slowly merging into traffic . When I put my foot on the gas pedal, there was no accerlation for a few seconds (car just idled) and then suddenly, the car lurched forward into traffic at a high speed with the tires screeching. The same thing happened twice more on october 17, 2001 when turning left at intersections; then about 10 times on october 17 while either making turns or driving in heavy traffic; twice on nov.7; and, twice more on nov. 13. We were afraid to drive car on oct. 25 and had towed to closest dealer. Car has been to service dept. Twice, on 10/22 and 10/25. Defect not found or repaired. We are too afraid to drive this car as we were almost in 5 accidents.
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