Consumer Complaint Detail
VOLKSWAGEN / PASSAT / 1998
0 Injured
0 Death
No Fire
| Components - Details | |
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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 004283708 | Incident Date: Mar, 09 2004 |
| Consumer's City: MADISON | Consumer's State: WI |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN | Manufacturers Name: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| Model Name: PASSAT | Model Year: 1998 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Suspension:front:control arm |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: WVWMA63B4WE | Date added to File: May, 25 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Jun, 13 2004 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Jan, 19 2004 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 4 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: Our 1998 passat has only 50,000 miles on it, and yet all of the expensive front control arms are starting to go bad. they are getting play in the ball joints, which are only replaceable by replacing the whole control arms. since there are a total of 8 control arms, the cost of repair is potentially very high. and if they are not replaced, the potential for hazard and injury becomes very great if the joints get so sloppy that they affect the handling of the car and eventually come apart. vw should not be allowed to get away with building such an under-engineered suspension system.*ak |