2018 VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN — Complaint #1558039
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558039 (ODI reference 11196445) concerns a 2018 VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 13, 2019. The vehicle had 8,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN cohort independently describe similar power train failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MY WIFE CALLED ME PANICKED BECAUSE HER 2018 VW TIGUAN SEL, WITH 8000 MILES, CUT OUT ON HER WHILE SLOWLY PULLING INTO A BUSY INTERSECTION. SHE DESCRIBED THE PROBLEM AS IF THE CAR LOST COMPLETE POWER FOR A FEW SECONDS, EVEN THOUGH SHE DID NOT HAVE HER FOOT ON THE BREAK AT THE TIME, AND THE CAR WAS NOT ABLE TO ACCELERATE. MY WIFE QUICKLY PUT THE CAR INTO REVERSE, WHERE IT RESPONDED WELL MOVING BACKWARDS, AND THREW ON HER HAZARDS. THE VEHICLE IS LESS THAN 1 YEAR OLD AND SHE IS DEATHLY SCARED OF DRIVING IT NOW. THE VEHICLE IS A HAZARD! WHEN LOOKING ONLINE FOR SIMILAR POWER TRAIN ISSUES, MANY OTHER CUSTOMERS ARE REPORTING A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558039 |
| ODI Number | 11196445 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 13, 2019 |
| VIN | 3VV3B7AX4JM |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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