Seat belt warning light and chime come on and off randomly even when the seat belt is engaged. This occurs when the vehicle is both in motion and at a standstill.
2009 Volkswagen Jetta seat belts complaints
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On four separate occasions, the rear seatbelts have locked in the fully withdrawn position and will not retract, requiring complete mechanism replacement. This occurred initially after purchase on a road trip with our kids, then recently again on both sides, and again just a week ago. On all but the most recent occurrence were replaced at no charge by vw. The most recent occurrence makes us believe this is a true defect in the mechanism. Vw has not, to my knowledge, acknowledged any defect or made a revision to the part. The safety concern is that the belt will lock and not retract during transit, endangering my passengers in the event of an accident.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 volkswagen jetta sportwagen. The contact stated the vehicle was parked when she noticed that the rear passenger side seat belt would not retract back into its pretensioner. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer where the contact was informed that a spring within the pretensioner needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. Approximately eight months later, the failure occurred on the rear driver's seat. The vehicle was not taken to be repaired. The failure mileage was 40,000 and the current mileage was 53,000.
Purchased a new '09 vw jetta sdn 2.5 l s and the second day I had it, I had to take to service dept. The door seal from drivers door was coming off, the car would smell like burning plastic and I noticed after 3rd trip ( in 2 days ) the rear brakes were "glowing" red hot. They said they could figure it out and said it may be a plastic coating they put on brake pads to keep rust from building up on the ship overseas! After the brakes constantly squeaking and having to take my new car in 2 more time with every excuse known to man , I was mistakenly told it was a defect and they changed them at no charge. My brakes are again going out and it has only been about 6-9 months. The concern is that they have not fixed the root of the problem as well as a seat belt indicator which has been faulty. I have had them make me take it in 3 times for that ( first time they couldn't duplicate the problem, so I was told to bring it in again ) and one passenger side was replaced but it is still happening and I fear that the combined brake and seat belt/ airbag issues could be dangerous! Also troubling is in the last few months the drivers side rear door would not unlock by any means for on 3 occasions (the last which I called vw service to make an appointment for and never got a return phone call) the last time it was unusable door for 2 weeks then just started working again. It has not been attended to, but my fear is again, in a accident if someone was back there they may get trapped in car.
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