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2009 Volkswagen Jetta stability control problems

Owners reported stability control problems in 93 complaints for the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta, 7% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
93 7% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
104,000 miles 80 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
9 and 0
Injuries and deaths
3 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When stability control problems show up

Stability control complaints by mileage, 2009 Volkswagen Jetta Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 104,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 4 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 2 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 6 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 13 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 10 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 17 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 16 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 6 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 4 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 1 complaints 200k+ miles: 1 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 104,000 miles
Based on 80 complaints that include mileage. 15% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles4
20k to 40k miles2
40k to 60k miles6
60k to 80k miles13
80k to 100k miles10
100k to 120k miles17
120k to 140k miles16
140k to 160k miles6
160k to 180k miles4
180k to 200k miles1
200k+ miles1

What the data shows

Of the 80 stability control complaints that report mileage, the median is about 104,000 miles, and 15% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 9 crashes, 3 injuries.

What owners wrote

My VW jetta tdi had many problems since I purchased it. First, we had problems with the injection system imploding. They asked if we ever put in gasoline instead of diesel. I told them absolutely not. They wanted to charge me $6500 because car was out of warranty but service manager got VW to pay for it because I said I was going to get an attorney. On june 27, 2014 we had with an electrical problem where the battery was draining from a short in the radio modulator. The car had 101,348 miles.

Reported at 111,000 miles, January 2015 CrashInjury

My wife was driving her 2009 VW jetta and the ABS, traction control and brake light comes on the dashboard the other day with a beeping sound also. First let me say this car just turned 65,000 miles. I have owned many vehicles in my lifetime and this is unacceptable for a major safety device to fail as this did so early in the life of this car. I have read many other complaints that the ABS control module fails and consumers have lost steering.

Reported at 65,240 miles, November 2016

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