Consumer Complaint Detail

VOLKSWAGEN / GTI / 2003

Recalls
1 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
Complaints
No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 004312272 Incident Date: Oct, 25 2004
Consumer's City: WINTER SPRINGS Consumer's State: FL
Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN Manufacturers Name: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
Model Name: GTI Model Year: 2003
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: Yes Component's Description: Air bags:frontal
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 1
Vehicle's VIN#: 9BWDH61J434 Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Dec, 08 2004 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: Yes Purchase Date: Aug, 22 2003
Was Original Owner: Yes Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 6 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Events leading up to failure was a front end collision, in which my car was in a front impact accident with a suv. my car is a little 2 door vw gti vr6 2003. the suv was a honda pilot. the failure was that my car was considered totaled by my insurance company and by the body shop my car was towed to and the driver's air bag did not go off. the engine block was cracked and the passenger air bag went off, but i was the only person in the vehicle. i had my seat belt on and my air bag did not go off. the consequences are that my neck and back hurt daily. nothing has been done that i know of to this day to correct the action. i would suggest looking at the engineering of the computer system dealing with the air bag.*ak