2013 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA SPORTWAGEN — Complaint #1754648
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY filed June 29, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1754648 (ODI reference 11422730) concerns a 2013 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA SPORTWAGEN and was filed on June 29, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 28, 2021. The vehicle had 210,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:delivery, 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 JETTA SPORTWAGEN cohort independently describe similar fuel system, gasoline:delivery 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 2013 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA SPORTWAGEN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2013 Volkswagen Jetta Sportswagen. The contact stated that after refueling the vehicle, it was discovered that fuel was leaking from the vehicle. Upon inspection, it was discovered that the fuel tank coupler located between the fuel tank and exhaust pipe had failed to cause the fuel tank to leak fuel. The vehicle was not yet repaired. The manufacturer and local dealer were not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 210,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1754648 |
| ODI Number | 11422730 |
| Date Filed | June 29, 2021 |
| Failure Date | June 28, 2021 |
| VIN | 3VWPL7AJ1DM |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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