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2013 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA — Complaint #2077836

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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:BODY CONTROL MODULE/BCM filed March 27, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2077836 (ODI reference 11651070) concerns a 2013 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA and was filed on March 27, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 8, 2025. The vehicle had 134,900 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:body control module/bcm, 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 cohort independently describe similar electrical system:body control module/bcm 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 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2013 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA
Component
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:BODY CONTROL MODULE/BCM
State
Virginia
Mileage
134,900 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2013 Volkswagen Jetta. The contact stated that whenever the temperature fell below 20 degrees, the windshield wipers became inoperable. The contact stated that the Body Control Module (BCM) had previously been replaced, but the failure persisted. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, who determined that the Body Control Module (BCM) needed to be replaced a second time. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 134,900.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2077836
ODI Number 11651070
Date Filed March 27, 2025
Failure Date January 8, 2025
VIN 3VWDX7AJ0DM

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.