Used 2000 Volkswagen Jetta Consumer Reviews
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Fun but always broken
This car was lots of fun to drive and I had an extended warranty, or else I would have ditched it. It always had body parts breaking. The electrical system was always having shorts (one time it went crazy and my trunk kept popping open while driving, blinkers worked only sometimes, doors locked on their own, etc). Endless mechanical parts were replaced. I hated the feeling I got when a new warning lit up on the dash. Just before the warranty expired I had to be towed. All of this happened before it even reached 91,000 miles. If I hadn't owned a Fiat 27 years ago, which showed me how truly bad a car can be, I would have been tempted to give my Jetta an even lower reliability score than I did
Ugh.
This is my first, and last, VW. I've had it less than a year (bought at 24,000 miles) and have had the following problems: oxygen sensor, brake switch, engine light will not go off and the driver's side window mechanism had to be replaced.
- GLS 1.8T SedanMSRP: $3,989396 mi away
- GLS TDi Diesel SedanMSRP: $3,9991,058 mi away
- GLS VR6 SedanMSRP: $2,9951,143 mi away
VW losing their touch
Do yourself a favor and don't buy a jetta. My VR6 has been in my family since it was purchased in 2001 (it's a 2000). I paid my brother 5,000 for the car in 2005 which was a steal (or so I thought). As of now, in 2009, i've spent almost 5,000 fixing it. I'm a regular at the shop. I've replaced, like many other Jetta owners, sensors, breaks (way too often), water pump, clutch, struts, some more sensors... The glove box and cup holder broke within the first two years of use (Can't Germans even engineer a cup holder?). All in all, from sensors to cup holders, it's not much more than faulty junk.
german style
i love my vw so much that I just cant stand it i am a teen and it peels right ut of those corners like crazy. If i had a coice to pick any car in the world it would be this one.
Bad trade
CD player stopped working. Oil leak. Air condition stopped working. Almost no engine power, when u turn on Air condition it is very bad.