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2019 Volkswagen Jetta air bags problems

16 complaints about air bags have been filed for the 2019 Volkswagen Jetta, which is 2% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
16 2% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
7 and 0
Injuries and deaths
8 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 7 crashes, 8 injuries.

What owners wrote

While traveling on [XXX] in Van Buren, Arkansas, I was involved in a hit-and-run accident. The impact caused significant front-end damage and resulted in physical injuries. The vehicle’s dashboard/electrical system indicated AIRBAG:ERROR, and the police report reflects that airbag deployed yet we have photo evidence that the airbag did not deploy. However, photo evidence clearly shows that no airbags deployed for any occupants. The airbags remained completely intact following the crash.

June 2022 CrashInjury

The passenger side airbag light intermittently lights up. Sometimes immediately when starting the car, other times while driving and sometimes everything works fine. At times when the light is on during startup it stays on for quite a while (many miles) it may then go off or not. Also, when the passenger seat occupant moves on the seat the light may or may not go off. I took the car to a VW dealer who could not find anything wrong and told me "well, the seabelt works, doesn't it?"

Reported at 3,500 miles, September 2019

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