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If you own a Volkswagen Passat from the 2001 to 2007 archetypal years, acquire up. “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has agitated its analysis into accessible blaze problems on about 500,000 Volkswagen Passats with 4-cylinder turbo engines,” The New York Times reports. They add, “The coils are acclimated to accomplish the high-voltage accepted that fires atom plugs, and VW dedicates one braid for anniversary plug. On the 4-cylinder models getting investigated, then, there would be four agitation coils. If a braid fails, the atom bung does not blaze and the engine loses power.&rdquo.

So far, there acquire been 35 complains. “ODI has accustomed 14 complaints alleging that a blaze started in the engine alcove of the car that may be accompanying to agitation braid failure, and 21 complaints of agitation braid abortion that did not aftereffect in a fire,” NHTSA states. “Reports accompaniment that the car hesitated or absent power, and the analysis engine or dashboard lights illuminated. The cars were repaired by replacing the adulterated agitation coil(s). Some of the complaints adumbrated that the agitation coils were replaced added than once. “

Unfortunately, this isn’t the aboriginal time NHTSA has advised Passats for the aforementioned issue. “If this sounds familiar, that’s because this is the added such analysis opened by NHTSA,” Autoblog explains. “The aboriginal centered about models congenital alone in 2002 and 2003; this added analysis has been opened and broadcast to cover all model-year 2001-2007 Passats due to added chump complaints.”

If NHTSA issues a recall, about bisected a actor cars will be affected. We’ll accumulate you acquaint on whether or not this austere analysis progresses.

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