2010 Volkswagen Tiguan Engine Problems

“My car was driven to a restaurant and parked. Upon returning to the car, the car would not start. It was towed to a mechanic where I was told that the timing chain had broken and ruined the engine by bending parts of the valves. The engine needs replaced and used engines have a starting price around $6000.00.”

“On 6/3/17. Out of the blue while driving in the neighborhood, the car seemed to hesitate - wanting to turn off - lasted about 20 seconds then it was fine until I arrived to my destination, parked the car.. 4 hrs later ready to go back home, the car didn't start. Called aaa, checked battery- fine, possibly alternator. Although aaa guy said the craking noise when trying 2 start the car; didn't think was alternator either. …”

“While driving 25-30 MPH on a city street, vehicle stopped accelerating (much like running out of gas...) dealer states timing chain tensioner failed destroying engine-I understand vw has a TSB out on this for years and though I serviced my vehicle at dealer, never knew of this potential problem”

“I purchased my 2010 vw Tiguan a year ago. At 10k miles as requested I did the oil change. A month later or so oil started to leak. One day I drove my car to a store and left the engine running because I was only there for a few mins. Came back and my engine died. My mechanic diagnosed it and stated it was the timing belt that went. A lot of of people has been complaining about oil leak in general with this vehicle. Wish I knew sooner I would have never bought this car.”

“In february 2014, my Tiguan began stalling when I would slow down to enter an off or on ramp. I would slow down, but when I attempted to speed back up, the car would begin stalling out, at times stalling out completely. I changed fuel, thinking that might be the problem, but it wasn't. My neighbor, who had just bought a 2014 Tiguan, told me he had received a recall notice regarding stalling issues involving the fuel pump in all tiguans from 2009-2014. …”