Federal complaint record · Volkswagen Jetta · model year 2001

2001 Volkswagen Jetta

Owners submitted 668 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 71th percentile for complaint intensity within its 1999 to 2003 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 14% · group n = 123Electrical · 14% · group n = 122Airbags · 12% · group n = 103Lighting · 10% · group n = 90Brakes · 10% · group n = 89
668
Complaint records on file
50,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 358 complaints reported mileage
14%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 123
71th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 29 model years

Engine · 1 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Engine14%

Engine reports

Volkswagen Jetta · model year 2001

Reports in this group123
Share of classified reports14%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2000
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
439 matched incidents
This car
2001
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
668 matched incidents
2002
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
702 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 123 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32001 Volkswagen Jetta
Airbag concerns · 82 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32001 Volkswagen Jetta
Stalling or shutdown · 54 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32001 Volkswagen Jetta

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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