2011 Volkswagen Tiguan Engine Problems

“Bright red oil can starts flashing on screen while on major highway. Made I home. The next day the car kept staling before I even left for work. Found out no oil was being distributed through the motor causing the engine to seize. Loud noise could also be the timing belt, which is a common problem in these vehicles. Now I have a car that is not paid off, and I can't drive. This is an absolute nightmare.”

“We were driving the car and the engine seized and shut down completely as we were in motion. Unable to start engine again. At 52,000 miles, the vw mohegan lake motors told us that the engine needed to be replaced for $8k. Research indicates it had been a known problem with vw issuing technical sheets about the engine in these models and having the same issue. They refused to pay because no longer under warranty which had ended a month beforehand.”

“When attempting to start my car, it would not 'catch' and start running. I took it to the local Volkswagen shop and was told that the timing chain tensioner failed. The result was a slipped timing chain that rendered the engine useless. I will need a whole new engine. I understand now that this is a common problem with this make and model of engine from Volkswagen. The car currently has 82,000+ miles and in my humble opinion, is too early for this type of failure.”

“The vehicle started sputtering check engine light came on. Took it to Volkswagen and they told me to put gas treatment in see if that fixes problem. It seemed to help a bit for a week but check engine light still on. Then one morning I got up and tired to start car it hesitated to start almost died and started. I was in the process of taking it to Volkswagen again and the vehicle died while I was driving. Thank god I was just down the road from my house. It could have been very dangerous if it died on highway. One of the recalls on this model is describing what happened to my vehicle. …”

“My vw 2011 Tiguan's timing belt skipped and end up damaging the engine. The car was stationary, my wife, a couple of hours before came back from a meeting in the car and parked it. Then when she went back to the car it cranked but didn't turn on. It only has 58k miles but vw is not responding because it was 5 month past the warranty end date. This happened in 5/2016... Most of the recommended scheduled maintainance were performed and most have been performed in the dealership but the last one that was performed in firestone. …”