8.0

pretty bad
Typical Repair Cost:
$3,000
Average Mileage:
125,000 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. replace clutch, components (1 reports)
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problem #1

Oct 312015

Jetta TDI Diesal

  • Manual transmission
  • 125,000 miles

catastrophic fialure of clutch

The funny thing is I'm deployed and the car has only been started up since I left 4 months ago, in other words very limited driving to only move the car when it was in the way. Maybe the clutch goes bad when it's not used? I was told the car started to smoke and smelled like burning rubber about a minute after the car was turned on. So far it's an estimated $3k to fix.

I don't have much more detail since I'm about 15,000 miles away from my car.

- cbrigtri3, Santa Barbara, CA, US