2019 Volkswagen Jetta Engine Problems

Initial call out for oil change and investigation of oil consumption and knocking from engine. Upon examination in person the timing cover was found to be heavily leaking and had pools of oil around the valleys that surround it.

Faulty started. Per your website, Volkswagen issued a recall for certain 2019 and 2020 Jetta models with traditional ignition keys(not push-button start) due to a faulty ignition switch that can cause the electrical system to shut down and the engine to stall, increasing crash risk. This recall, identified as Recall 23V-604 by NHTSA.

I have already submitted a complaint but today I am submitting another one because I see the vw 2019 jetta recall for ignition switch does not yet have a remedy and today I experienced my engine stalled and the engine light is currently on. This recall increases the risk of crashing which can cause harm and poses a threat to overall safety.

Vehicle caught fire while putting car in reverse. Car exploded from engine, no check engine light. I could have died, the fire almost burned down a building.

Car constistently stalls when coming to a stop. Will stall even in neutral with the clutch depressed. Will drive fine sometimes and sometimes it will stall 15+ times in a single trip.

I own a 2019 manual jetta gli 35 anniversary. While slowing down to a stop light, stop sign etc.. The engine shuts off at slow speeds.

Vehicle is randomly stalling when coming to a stop and the vehicle must be restarted. This happens regardless of whether the vehicle is in gear, if the clutch is fully pressed to the floor, or if the vehicle is in neutral. This seems to happen more frequently when the air conditioning is turned on.

Your car feels sluggish and hesitant to accelerate, as if it's not shifting gears properly. Recently, while making a hard left turn, your engine stalled, and when you tried to speed up again, it continued stalling and struggling to gain power. When you checked under the hood after safely stopping, you noticed smoke coming from the engine area. This could indicate a transmission issue, ignition problem, or engine overheating that needs professional diagnosis.

MY Jetta is only 6 years old and has only 27,350 mileage when this issue happened. Low oil light came and took it to a Local Shop where they put it on a lift and saw oil all over the bottom of the car. The technician told me this car is not safe and you need to have it towed to VW and see what is happening.

Started car in the morning to go to work and 20 minutes later heard loud clunking coming from engine bay. Pulled over and got towed. Upper timing cover was removed and found that screws from camshaft phasers had backed out causing issue.

engine stalling and cutting off while driving. unsafe while in heavy traffic.

Car stalled and turned off after a red light turned green and pressed on the gas pedal. Error message popped up: Error: Start-Stop System. The red triangle with exclamation point symbol appeared.

I previously filed a complaint, complaint number 11306864, with reference to my 2019 volkswagen gti autobahn, manual transmission, purchased as new on january 17, 2020, with reference to low-speed engine stalling. I have since discovered that my vehicle was reported to the NHTSA as repaired by vw service action code 24 fd, published on december 6, 2019.

Vehicle will stall at times when coming to complete stop, or when coasting in neutral, with clutch pedal depressed. Vw dealer reset ecu adaptations. Issue still remains.

Car randomly shuts stalls. I've had the car 6 days and it's done it four times. Three when stopped or going 5mph or less on highwayy off ramps.

My car is 2 weeks old with 400 miles on the car. Since the odometer had aprox 100 miles on it the car has been having a issue with stalling when coming to a stop. In the past 2 weeks it has stalled aprox 26 times when coming to a stop.

2019 vw gli manual transmission stalls unpredictably when slowing down with the clutch depressed and/or the transmission in neutral. This has happened infrequently, but unpredictably. So far it has only resulted in horn blowing from the car behind, but if it were to happen when turning in front of oncoming traffic it would be very bad.

Vehicle stalls when clutch is depressed, placed back into neutral, when coming to a stop. The stalling happens more frequently after the car has been driven for 15-30 minutes. Stall occurs whil rolling to a stop

2019 jetta gli 6mt. Car will stall when coming to a stop in first, second, and neutral. When in neutral, clutch can be either in or out to replicate issue.

The car has stalled multiple times with the clutch depresed to the floor and in neutral or shifting from second or third to neutral while coming to a stop.

Vehicle stalls while coming to a stop. The issue has happened four times and I've only had the vehicle two weeks. The clutch pedal is depressed the entire time and the vehicle has to be manually started again.

My brand new 2019 gli keeps stalling when approaching stop or light. This happens when clutch is out and engine in neutral.

This is a brand new manual transmission jetta gli with only 160 miles. After driving for about 16 minutes at highway speeds on the expressway, the car quietly stalled out while coming to a stop on an exit ramp. I restarted the car, drove to a stoplight about a minute away and after coming to a stop at that light the car stalled again.

The engine of my new 2019 jetta gli 6mt sometimes stalls when coming to a stop. The clutch pedal is fully depressed (disengaged), with the stick either in 1st or neutral. This happened 3 or 4 times yesterday, aug 1 2019, after driving with medium speeds on hilly roads for 30-45 minutes.

Engine stalling on new vehicle. Two events occurred in one night, 7/23/2019, with about 790 and 801 miles on the odometer. In both cases, the clutch was disengaged while braking and slowing to approach a turn.

My manual transmission-equipped 2019 jetta gli (2.0t) stalls at slow speeds and at stop lights despite the clutch pedal fully engaged ("to the floor") or the vehicle coasting in neutral. I have had the car for three days and in two of those days, the vehicle has stalled while driving through city streets and at stop lights.

Miles on car 79,000 December 1, 2025 Car started to slow down while driving on bay bridge, San Francisco speed went suddenly from 55 miles an hour to 30 miles and hour Lights went off EPC and RPM maximum was showing on dashboard. Car suddenly started running at 25 to 35 miles an hour while driving on the highway.

The car started making a rattle noise from inside the engine. Immediately stopped the car and contacted a mechanic , discovered that the bolts holding the cam shafts became loose and were hitting the timing belt cover. Upon further research, the dealer wasn't aware of said problem, however there are numerous VW customers experiencing the same problem.

I purchased 2019 Volkswagen Jetta RLine Turbo in 2022 with 30 something thousand miles with warranty. The car was and only serviced at Volkswagen dealership since purchased(oil changes, etc.). My daughter mentioned several times to the service people the coolant was empty and needed to be refilled they checked and said it probably do to the heat and use of AC.

While driving, the car's electrical system failed and came to a complete stop. Identified as a faulty ignition switch by the dealer's service center. I contacted Volkswagen regarding the issue and provided NHTSA's campaign number of 23V604 for a recall on the 2019 Jetta's for ignition switch failure.

Exhaust cam phaser cover bolt backed out. It hit the engine casing which caused the exhaust cam phaser to misfunction.disfunction. The car has not been checked by a dealer but is available for inspection.

The purge valve and hose assembly for the EVAP system has failed and is leaking gas fumes into the cabin.

The contact owns a 2019 Volkswagen Jetta. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle lost motive power with an unknown warning light illuminated and an unknown message displayed. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or dealer.

Car started making a weird noise after service. It sounded like a tractor trailer idling next to me. Brought the car up to the dealership and determined it was due to a faulty engine.

1999 volkswagen jetta. Consumer stated that while driving over 25-35 MPH they hear a loud grinding noise. The consumer stated the dealer advised the turbo waste gate has play in it which is common in this model vehicle.

The contact owns a 2019 Volkswagen Jetta. The contact stated that the turbo was making an abnormal loud mechanical grinding sound. There was no warning light illuminated.

My car lost oil every 7k mile ,I bought for brand new , I went in dealership mamy many time and they inspected my car and results are we cannot fix this problems to many cars vw 2019 has this problem so my car lost 500gr on 1000 k mile , they just refill oil , I never heart that to put oil on top doest since. I have paper and everything but no body care

I took a car brand new 2019 after 5k miles light on display ' please check oil level' I went dealership and they told me when you lights its on stop here and we fuel it quarter oil...so now I see dealership every 5 k mile and every 10k mile when I change oil... No body care this is disrespect for costumer never buy volkswagen

Vehicle has 30,000 miles on it and the check coolant level warning light has been coming on. Took it to the dealership and first was told it had a coolant leak and needed a new thermostat. A little later the dealership then apologized and said that was for a different vehicle and ours was just low on coolant.

I have about 14, 000 miles on the car and it burns through engine oil very quickly. Sometimes I can even smell the burning oil. Twice the add oil light has come one.

Makes a loud grinding noise when accelerating. Dealership tries to say it's normal. Feel vibrations in gas pedal.

The car is brand new with 6317 miles. Driving home and it pings on the panel with the oil sensor light oil is low. We pull over and check there are no leaks.

When the vehicle is accelerating in either normal or eco mode, when it approached 28mph and shifts gears the engine makes a scraping/grinding sound. This happens consistently in the same driving session when accelerating with this gear change. This will happen on highways under rapid acceleration or on local streets under light acceleration.

The vehicle has a high pitched whine coming from the engine area under acceleration. Dealer can not find issue and fix. Vw has sent engineer out twice so far.

I have had a volkswagen jetta 2019 for 3 months and I have noticed a grinding sound coming from the engine. It starts the noise at 30-40mph at 1000-3000rpms, it's louder in eco mode but can still be heard in drive mode vary faintly but still noticeable.

I purchased a 2019 vw jetta se automatic with 38 miles on october 11, 2019 one month later as I was driving in traffic on the freeway to working heard and felt a grinding, sounding like it carne from the engine. I didn't want to jump to conclusions so I continued driving but it sounds a bit louder so I took it to the dealer and they told me 4 days later the sound is normal.

On 10/18//19 I purchased a volkswagen jetta s. The next day I started hearing a grinding noise at acceleration speeds of approximately 20-35 MPH. In 10/21/2019 I took the jetta to royal automotive in birmingham al.

On 9/26/2019 I was driving my 2019 jetta se with 1,187.8 miles on main street in santa ana around 5:50 pm. I was on the far left lane at a full stop and proceeded at low speeds onto the left-turning lane. As I continued to pull up onto the left-turning a lane a very loud metallic rattling/scraping noise was heard throughout the cabin coming from I suspect the transmission.

Brand new 11 days old 2019 jetta gli manual engine shut down three times while in traffic. Car was in neutral, started to shudder and shut down and had to restart. This happen while driving and the car was placed in neutral descending down a hill in heavy traffic.

Tl* the contact owns a 2019 volkswagen jetta. While the vehicle was at 1,500 rpms, the contact heard an abnormal noise. The vehicle was taken to crown volkswagen of lawrence (located at 3400 iowa st, lawrence, ks 66046, (785) 838-7750), but was not diagnosed or repaired.

Car was bought brand new. After 6 weeks of driving and approx 1,200 miles noticed leaking oil in the garage. Took it to the dealer.

2019 vw jetta's grinding/rattling noise from the torque converter. It's damaging the value of the vehicle and worse it's a safety issue as it causes accelerated heating and failure rate for the entire transmission system.

Exhaust camshaft actuator oil cap bolts loosen and fall out and could cause engine failure. Volkswagen has issued a service bulletin for this problem but not a recall.

Starter System Faulty light came on. I believe there's an issue with the VW Jetta's starter system and A/C actuator.

Low level oil It has problem with oil Vw cannot fixes

My car is burning oil and running very well before the 10k recommended intervals. My car is only 1 year old and every month I have to add a half a quart of oil so I dont forget to check and run out of oil and get the oil light. There are many complaints about this vehicle burning oil.

Engine burning through over a quart of oil before 10k oil changes.

Driving a 6 speed m/t. Without auto start/stop, traffic in front of me was slowing to a stop. Slowing down, I shifted to neutral to come to a stop.

Vehicle dies at stop light while idling and has to be restarted manually.

Engine on manual transmission repeatedly shuts off when coming to stop with clutch pedal fully depressed. This is similar to the auto-shutoff feature in automatic transmission, but should not happen with manual. Car must then be restarted with push button start.

Check oil level light/warning bell came on. Let the car cool, went out to check the oil with the dipstick, was very little oil in there !went to the auto parts store , checked it again, and this time the oil was back. Car was ok for 2 days then light came on again.