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1999 Volkswagen Passat vehicle speed control problems

32 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the vehicle speed control on the 1999 Volkswagen Passat5% of all complaints for this model year.

32
Vehicle Speed Control complaints
5%
share of all complaints
85,225 mi
median reported incident mileage
1 / 1
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • I wos driving from work to home I took the parkway I wos going 60 miles then in his own the car starting increasing speed so I move the shoulder I put the car neutral and stop the car.the took me 3 try to the car go back to normal. I dont know if this car got I recall.

    filed Aug 11, 2019

  • Passat began to accelerate under no pressure to pedal. Passat started to accelerate fairly slowly but steadily at first, then it increased. It wasn't possible to decelerate/no pressure on the brake pedal stopped the acceleration. It began to reach an unsafe speed then I began to downshift and to…

    filed Mar 9, 2015

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.