2007 Volkswagen Rabbit: engine stalls while driving

Filed Apr 4, 2011 · Engine · 8,000 miles · TX

I own a 2007 volkswagen rabbit. About 4 months after I got it, it started stalling. Only when my car is idling. It also sputters and is not running smoothly. Recently I started hearing a knocking noise under my hood. I've taken it into the dealership over and over and they send me home, saying they cant replicate the problem. The knocking happens on a regular basis, the stalling randomly happens, sometime I can go weeks without my car stalling, other times its only a few days. They've done nothing to fix this problem, just send me on my way. I need answers, and this problem to be fixed.

Filed Sep 15, 2010 · Electrical, Fuel system · 100 miles · FL

Frequent near stalls of my 2007 rabbit 2.5 automatic. This is my 2nd report to you and advised by the orlando sentinel reporter . The car's RPM drops about 1000 RPM on normal acceleration for about 4-6 seconds, never shutting off but just sitting there. This has occurred since taking the lease car in 08, but the dealership refuses to acknowledge the defect. Numerous similar complaints have been filed with edmunds and no action has been taken. This is a very dangerous condition if turning in front of an oncoming line of traffic, and I want it fixed, but also acknowledged by vw. An orlando vw technician told me it also happened in one of their new c model deluxe vw's a month ago. This drop off of power happens almost every time the car is driven. I will advise the orlando sentinel's reporter I have contacted you again. Thank you. Updated 01/18/11. *jb *tr updated 04/13/11

Filed Mar 28, 2009 · Fuel system · 17,400 miles · TX

Above ambient temperatures of 80 degrees fahrenheit and 20 minutes of highway driving my 2007 vw rabbit experiences bogging, jerking stalling upon coming back onto surface streets mainly the issue occurs on launching at stop lights and stop signs. Issue occurs between 3/4 and 2/3 of a tank. Incident repeats whenever conditions are right. So far diagnostic testing has turned up few leads however a variant of my car has a pending recall for similar symptoms. Http://www-odi.the federal safety agency.dot.gov/recalls/results.cfm?rcl_id=09v093&searchtype=quicksearch&summary=true&refurl=email.

Filed Jan 18, 2009 · Acceleration · 23,550 miles · 00 · crash

I bought a used 2007 volkswagen rabbit with 22,500 km jan. 10, 2009. I drove the vehicle fairly steadily in the city and on the freeway the week after the purchase . While on the freeway I did notice a substantial acceleration on one occasion when I passed although I did not accelerate very much, however I thought I might have engaged passing acceleration. Then a few days later on jan. 17, 2009 a week later, I was in quite a frightening accident that resulted in considerable damage. Thankfully no one was injured. I had gone to a small shopping mall that had parking in front of the shops. I pulled into a stall in front of one of the shops and was gently accelerating to pull up to the stall curb when the car accelerated out of control into the shop damaging the building and the car. The whole thing happened so quickly, I couldn't even react to put on the brakes. Had people been walking in front of the car, they would have been killed. I am not an aggressive driver and I have not had an accident in 25 years. I was in a state of shock. Due to the seriousness of what happened, I thought you should know in the event others start to happen. Right now I am in the process of getting the vehicle repaired and try to determine what happened.

Filed Aug 24, 2008 · Engine · 22,451 miles · GA

2007 vw rabbit with 20,000 miles manual transmission stalls during take off after being warmed up. Taking off from a green light the car will suddenly and quickly come to a stop and have to be restarted causing traffic behind me to catch up very fast almost causing a collision. This has happened numerous times. I have had the car to the local vw dealer 3 times and the last time they had it for 2 weeks. The dealer has replaced spark plugs, coli packs, mass air flow sensor, catalytic converter, performed a static discharge on complete wiring system, reset throttle body and basic settings and reset readiness codes. The problem is still not solved.

Filed May 10, 2007 · Acceleration · 300 miles · 00

Rabbit issues: 4 months in. To give you an idea...with 300000 lms on the car I was stuck in inner city traffic just after I pulled out of my street where I lived. It was a warm day in january, and I had let the car warm up , but when I was in traffic it decided to stall. I had to wait a few seconds to get the motor to turn back over. The car had been shaking more then it would normally a few moments before. Then, the other day, I started the car, cleaned the snow off, and then drove off. Getting out of my street had to cross a really busy street to make the turn, when I went to hit the gas to get into a free spot on the road the car revved really high, but the car didn't respond. The car drove like I was only wanting it to go 10 MPH , but I had hit the pedal to get it to go way faster given the busy street. The revvs were there like the car was in neutral or something, but it didn't respond. I immediately checked the automatic gear box to see if I had accidentally bumped the sifter into neutral ,but I hadn't it. I almost got killed. Very strange. I whipped the sweat off of my forehead and kept driving slowly and it was okay. I even tried the gas pedal again to see if it would not respond, but it did almost like there was no fuel coming through, but that didn't make sense because the revvs were there. I will have it checked out next time I go to my dealer.