2001 Volkswagen Jetta review from North America

I purchased my 2001 Jetta new. With the amount of problems I have had I figured my car was either made on a Friday afternoon or a Monday morning.

The first problem I encountered was the first summer I owned the car. After the horrible smell of dog poo coming from my vents, I took it in to the dealership. To my dismay there was a flap of some sort that was broken which caused an abundance of mold to grow on the my ac filter. Great I was breathing mold into my lungs!

The next problem I faced was the costly replacement of rear rotors in the third year and then front rotors the next year. Can I just say the front ones are supposed to go before the back rotors. Not normal and very costly.

Then last year my transmission was acting up. The service center hooked it up to the computer and the computer said there was nothing wrong. Um…..the car was not shifting properly, but what the computer says must be right. I demanded a mechanic, a living human, look at the car. I am a female college student so I may come across as ignorant, but I know when something is wrong with the car I drive everyday. So I made the dealership keep the car until they figured out what was wrong with it. A week later, they called back to say that after driving the car for an hour they experienced what I was talking about and with that they replace the whole transmission. Hot damn! What would I know, I am only a girl? I do know that replacing the transmission in the first four years screams major problems.

And then there is today. My window has fallen into the door. Apparently the plastic clips that hold the window have broken in a lot of the cars. Volkswagen has extended this to a seven year warranty and replaces the clips with mental ones. But where am I when they do not have time to get my car in? Oh yes, I get to drive around with a bag on my window. Thanks VW.

These were the major problems I faced. On top of these problems, I do have the crayon smell, which I did not notice at first because of the smell of dog. Then when that was fixed I figured since I baby sit that one of the kids crayons may have fallen into the floor vents. After reading these comments I now know it is the car. After five years I too have the problem of the oozing goo from the door, which gets on my clothes when I get out of the car. The plastic is pealing off the doors, my back cup holder is broken, and everything sticks to the cloth seats.

I am selling my jetta. If anyone is looking for a nice looking car with lots of expensive problems…I have the car for you!