VW jetta Heated seat caught on fire????

[Superesc]

Was talking to a coworker of mine this morning, seem his (2002) Jetta's Heated seat caught on fire this weekend, burnt a hole in his wife's jacket too!!! Anyone (VW owners) have this experience?????

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[MerfBall]

I've heard of this being a problem with the 2002+ GLS models, the off thing is that there is no recall and some of the people in the states that tried to get it warrantied ended paying for it. Tell your friend to take it in and make VW pay for the repairs and his wife's jacket. Looking on vortex there's a bunch of threads the biggest one:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1113071

here's a few more:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1043756
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=866788
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1095853

and problem with the B5 passats too

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1134988
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1237781

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[Superesc]

Nice I will forward these info to him.


Originally posted by MerfBall
I've heard of this being a problem with the 2002+ GLS models, the off thing is that there is no recall and some of the people in the states that tried to get it warrantied ended paying for it. Tell your friend to take it in and make VW pay for the repairs and his wife's jacket. Looking on vortex there's a bunch of threads the biggest one:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1113071

here's a few more:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1043756
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=866788
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1095853

and problem with the B5 passats too

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1134988
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1237781

[finboy]

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[Superesc]

I wonder why they didn't do a recall... kinda sketchy.

[Ben]

Why would they do a recall? It's a possiblity with ANY heated seats.

could just be an isolated occurance. I did a search of the VW forums and turned up nothing.

[Superesc]

Originally posted by Ben
I did a search of the VW forums and turned up nothing.

Originally posted by MerfBall
I've heard of this being a problem with the 2002+ GLS models, the off thing is that there is no recall and some of the people in the states that tried to get it warrantied ended paying for it. Tell your friend to take it in and make VW pay for the repairs and his wife's jacket. Looking on vortex there's a bunch of threads the biggest one:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1113071

here's a few more:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1043756
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=866788
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1095853

and problem with the B5 passats too

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1134988
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1237781

[MerfBall]

Originally posted by Superesc
I wonder why they didn't do a recall... kinda sketchy.

This is VW. They make pretty nice cars but in the quality, service and support they suck. Even the faulty coil packs in the 2002+ jettas and golfs was not an official recall, it's not registered with either canadian or american agencies and when you talk to VW people they say its not a recall campaign but a "voluntary repair". Hmmm... brought mine in 3 different times to get the coil packs replaced before they decided to replace all 6 of them, which they should have done the first time.

Even the jacks that come with them are so cheap, when I used it on my old jetta the car fell off, luckily wheel was still on, but it put a huge gash in the rocker panel. Brought it in to VW and even the mechanic tried using it and said that he stopped when any weight was on it at all since the jack started to flex. They gave me one from another car and the mechanic tried it again before I left, he told me to get a scissor jack cause that one was flexing too and clearly wouldn't support the weight of the car.

Tell your friend to take it to the service manager (think his name is Ken Webster) at 5th Ave he was pretty good about the problems I had.

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[MerfBall]

Originally posted by Ben
Why would they do a recall? It's a possiblity with ANY heated seats.

could just be an isolated occurance. I did a search of the VW forums and turned up nothing.

It's far from an isolated incident, VWAG does not take any action at all on any problems. Look at he coil packs they are running a "Voluntary Repair" campaign not a recall, whatever that means and even in the beginning alot of dealerships charged the owners to replace the coils (probably saying it was an isolated incident as well). It took them nearly 6 monthes to a year before they sent out those letters and even when they did they didn't even have the new coils and replaced them with coils from cars on the lot.

[Ben]

Originally posted by Superesc



haha, yeah, I noticed that, damn search function was turned off in my CP, ahaha
I've personally never heard of it happening, haha, have heated seats in my 02 Golf GLS as well as many friends have them.

[nismodrifter]

yep this seems to be happening alot....seems like eveyrday on vortex there is a thread about it

[Khyron]

It will be like the coils and the regulators - once enough people complain it will be recalled. Just keep the receipts and photos.

Hell, I don't think VW even has a block heater/oil pan option because the last one caught fire and was recalled. No one on the local Calgary forums has reported it though.

Khyron

[legendboy]

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[markymark]

Seems to me like someone sooner or later is gonna get a burn and want to make some money off it, and VW (or whatever company uses heated seats) will have a lawsuit on its hands...:drama:

[iceburns288]

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[legendboy]

I was decomissioned because some guy kept whining to rage2 about something I did :rofl:

Anyways, I've just been kidding through out this thread. If beyonds "super mods" want to start replacing my posts with rules then so be it haha :rolleyes:

If they want to be so anal I'll remove every post in this thread that isn't directly related to the topic.

Done. Now this thread rocks.

[ScCab]

Originally posted by legendboy
I was decomissioned because some guy kept whining to rage2 about something I did :rofl:

Anyways, I've just been kidding through out this thread. If beyonds "super mods" want to start replacing my posts with rules then so be it haha :rolleyes:

If they want to be so anal I'll remove every post in this thread that isn't directly related to the topic.

Done. Now this thread rocks.
only one super mod and he didnt replace shit

[legendboy]

ya i was just trying to be sarcastic, I didn't actually mean the real supermod :D

[Alpine Autowerks]

Originally posted by Superesc
Was talking to a coworker of mine this morning, seem his (2002) Jetta's Heated seat caught on fire this weekend, burnt a hole in his wife's jacket too!!! Anyone (VW owners) have this experience?????


nothing new there....Audi 5000 s used to do it so often the dealer I worked at kept seat foam and covers in stock. They bought a few pair of pants too. My neigbors 5000t filled the interior with smoke so he opened the door to see wtf was happening. oxygen starved fire exploded and took his eyebrows off and 1/2 burnt his attached garage down. Car was totaled.

[NickGT]

Originally posted by Alpine Autowerks



nothing new there....Audi 5000 s used to it so often the dealer I worked at kept seat foam and covers in stock. They bought a few pair of pants too. My neigbors 5000t filled the interior with smoke so he opened the door to see wtf was happening. oxygen starved fire exploded and took his eyebrows off and 1/2 burnt his attached garage down. Car was totaled.

Holy crap! :eek:

[turboMiata]

Originally posted by Alpine Autowerks



nothing new there....Audi 5000 s used to do it so often the dealer I worked at kept seat foam and covers in stock. They bought a few pair of pants too. My neigbors 5000t filled the interior with smoke so he opened the door to see wtf was happening. oxygen starved fire exploded and took his eyebrows off and 1/2 burnt his attached garage down. Car was totaled.


Hehe, I'm sure that's the same with the Audi 4000 as well. I heard buh_buh's car has seat warmers too. And when you turn it on, it makes a loud buzzing noise. Impending failure?

:rofl: :rofl:

[MerfBall]

Originally posted by turboMiata



Hehe, I'm sure that's the same with the Audi 4000 as well. I heard buh_buh's car has seat warmers too. And when you turn it on, it makes a loud buzzing noise. Impending failure?

:rofl: :rofl:

You heard or you know :rofl:

[buh_buh]

:banghead:

[Hollywood]

wow this tread got beat to death.