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Stalling while driving on the 2015 Volkswagen GTI

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $300–$2,500
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 21st

When stalling while driving gets reported

There are 1 report of stalling while driving on the 2015 Volkswagen GTI. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 21st most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure, every year of the Volkswagen GTI

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1998 Volkswagen GTI stalling while driving 10k
  2. 2005 Volkswagen GTI stalling while driving 50k
  3. 2009 Volkswagen GTI stalling while driving 37k
  4. 2010 Volkswagen GTI stalling while driving 80k
  5. 2015 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  6. 2019 Volkswagen GTI stalling while driving 500

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2015 Volkswagen GTI

Water pump failure

22 reports median 50k

Other engine problem

13 reports median 62k

Sunroof failure or glass breakage

7 reports median 23k

Other fuel system problem

7 reports median 51k

Fuel leak or fuel odor

6 reports median 110k

Other powertrain problem

5 reports median 39k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 1 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed