2.0

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
80,418 miles

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problem #1

Mar 062004

Passat 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 80,418 miles
Sunroof suddenly and loudly exploded outwards from cabin after about 10 minutes of driving with heat on high/medium high at approx 65 mph. Sliding sunroof partition was open. Only a few pieces of glass fell into cabin, but entire sunroof was shattered into thousands of uniform pieces, expanding outward from cabin and remaining in a slightly outwards expanded shape.

- Boulder, CO, USA

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