Volkswagen air conditioning & heating problems
Across all Volkswagen models in NHTSA's complaint database, 498 complaints involve air conditioning & heating. The Jetta accounts for the largest share (43%). The single worst model year is the 2002 Jetta with 87 air conditioning & heating complaints.
At a glance
- Complaints
- 498 about air conditioning & heating, all Volkswagen models
- Most affected
- Jetta 43% of these complaints
- Typical mileage
- 51,000 miles 313 complaints with mileage
- Crashes and fires
- 3 and 171
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Which Volkswagen models
Worst model years for air conditioning & heating
- 2002 Volkswagen Jetta87 complaints
- 2003 Volkswagen Passat83 complaints
- 2003 Volkswagen Jetta69 complaints
- 1992 Volkswagen Corrado29 complaints
- 2004 Volkswagen Passat20 complaints
Air conditioning & heating complaints by model year
View the numbers
| Model year | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 21 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 35 |
| 1993 | 35 |
| 1994 | 3 |
| 1995 | 13 |
| 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 12 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 21 |
| 2002 | 107 |
| 2003 | 159 |
| 2004 | 28 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 |
Among the 313 of these complaints that report mileage, the median is about 51,000 miles.
Complaint counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles each brand sells, so large brands naturally have more complaints.