2015 Volkswagen E-Golf problems
Owners have filed 47 complaints with NHTSA about the 2015 Volkswagen E-Golf. Electrical system is the most reported problem area, at 43% of complaints. Next are fuel system (19%) and engine (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 47 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Electrical system 43% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 0 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 0 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 12,000 miles 42 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 26 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 13 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 3 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 0 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 0 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 0 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 0 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 42 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 12,000 miles. For electrical system specifically, the median reported mileage is about 14,000 miles (20 complaints with mileage).
None of these complaints report a crash, fire, injury or death. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 100% of model years in our database.
It is also covered by 3 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
I was driving my 5-month old VW e-golf on a city road with heavy traffic and traveling about 35-40 MPH when all of sudden my electric car shut off and came to a shuddering stop. It felt almost like another car had hit me from behind. The electric VW golf came to such an abrupt stop that the car behind me nearly hit me. But, they were able to swerve around me. But my car remained stuck in the road and with an electric failure message on the dashboard. The car would not start or even move.
On august 28 2016 prior to charging e-golf, charging system failed causing the damage on the electrical system and battery. The car was parked on the ucsd thornton parking lot. At that time car odometer shows 8727 miles. Volkswagen didn't (failed to) inform me about the recall for the software that control charging system and battery charging.
Today, while driving on local road, car started to shake and message appeared "battery malfunction" and car just died while running 40 MPH. After I turned it off and on after few mins everything was fine for another couple of hundreds feet and then it repeated again. This time while I was on the traffic light.
Other model years of the E-Golf
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