2010 Volkswagen Golf engine problems
16 complaints about engine have been filed for the 2010 Volkswagen Golf, which is 16% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 2nd most reported problem area for this model year.
At a glance
- Complaints
- 16 17% of this year's complaints
- Typical mileage
- 30,000 miles 15 complaints with mileage
- Crashes and fires
- 0 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 0 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
When engine problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 7 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 3 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 4 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 0 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 0 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 1 |
| 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 15 engine complaints that report mileage, the median is about 30,000 miles, and 93% were reported before 60,000 miles.
None of the engine complaints mention a crash, fire, injury or death.
What owners wrote
After leasing a brand new car for 2 days (with only 221 miles on the odometer) the car engine suddenly died in the middle of the road and would not start, leading to very dangerous for life and stressful(I had two final exams coming up within 2 days coming got)situation. After the car got towed to the official VW dealership at fladeboe on june 3rd, it took them 5 days to diagnose and repair the car. There was no injector pulse and engine control module was replaced.
Tl* the contact owns a 2010 volkswagen golf tdi. The contact stated that while driving at any speed, the vehicle would lose power. The failure recurred intermittently. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and a diagnostic was performed but the diagnostic was unable to locate a failure code. The vehicle was also test driven, but the failure could not be duplicated. The manufacture was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 19,000 and the current mileage was 20,000.
Other problems reported for the 2010 Volkswagen Golf
- Fuel system 35 complaints