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| Just wondering if any of you have been charged for the repairs that have been made on the coil packs? | |
| I have a 2002 Passat and I'm on the 3rd Coil problem. The car has to be towed in tomorrow. I cannot believe that nothing can be done about this. The first time was when the car was 6 months old, then again 4 months later and now 5 weeks later it happens again. The wind can shake the car and I get nervous I won't make it home or to the dealer. The dealer said "if" they have the part, they will replace it again, why bother, the replacement part is just as defective as the coil that is there now. | |
| My wife's 2003 Passat had an ignition coil fail with 6000 miles on the clock. Part is on backorder. Looks like VW has decided to carry a known problem over into the new model year. | |
| and drive on that... when the silly part comes in, put the dud back on, put the alternate-make unit in the trunk in its box, and you'll have a spare when the next silly part conks out and you have to wire Wolfsburg again. | |
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VW changed to a "better" supplier of coil packs some time in August 2002. Check the build date of your 2003 (on the drivers side front door jam). If it's August 2002, you may have the old packs. If it's before August 2002, you definitely have the old packs. If September 2002 or later, you have the new ones. You can also check the packs themselves. Those ending with "H" are bad. Those ending with "J" are the new ones. To check, remove the cover of the engine (3 screws). The part number of the packs is on the "back" side (facing the windshield). My 2002 was build in March 2002, so I'm just waiting for the packs to go. -Craig |
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| I ahve a 2001.5 Passat with 15,000 miles. Will there be a problem with the coil packs? | |
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Check the part number of the packs. The packs before the "H" (bad) ones is "G". Those, as far as I know, are good. They made the change some time in 2001. I'm guessing that the 2001.5's have the "H" packs, but I'm not certain. But don't you have a Mexican Jetta? I'm not sure if VW shipped these packs there. -Craig |
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Dealers here in Ontario are pulling coil packs off of cars on the lot to help customers get back on the road. They're as frustrated as the customers about this problem. The question I have is, how did VW let this problem work its way down to production vehicles? For a auto giant as large as VW, they must have some rigorous quality control testing on outsourced components. When they do a deal with suppliers you would think they would get at least 6-months lead time to test the first batch of components before putting them on production vehicles, or am I naive about the way car companies use JIT parts sourcing to keep inventories and production costs low. How on earth any VW exec thinks that anyone will shell out $50k+ on a Phaeton when the current high-end model (ie. Passat) has a problem like this is beyond me. |
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| I have a Passat not Jetta. There is no sticker in the door jam. I removed the cover to the engine but did not see any sticker or number on the engine block area facing the windshield. Maybe its on the cover. Should I check again. I think I'll call the dealer and find out. Bet they say they know nothing about it. | |
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Someone here has a Jetta. No sticker on the door jam? That's odd. The part number is on the coil itself (actually, all 4 of them). It's not a sticker (I don't think). It's imprinted on the part itself. The section of the part that has the part number is the "back side" - the side that faces the windshield. -Craig |
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