Other speed control problem on the 2013 Volkswagen Jetta
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 9 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
Only 6 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.
When other speed control problem gets reported
There are 9 reports of other speed control problem on the 2013 Volkswagen Jetta, 6 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 22nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 33,585 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 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 on other years
The same failure is reported on 18 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 2,100 miles, and latest on the 2008 at 145,000 miles.
By volume the 1999 carries the most reports, with 21; the 2013 has 9. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
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.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I was trying to merge onto highway traffic and when I pushed on the accelerator the car was unresponsive. It created an unsafe situation where I had to slam on the brakes and let the traffic pass by, then put the car in manual shift so that I could accelerate enough to merge with traffic. The inability to control the speed of the vehicle due to no response from the engine happens usually around speeds of 40 miles an hour. I have noticed that the car will be in 6 gear at very low speeds and fails to down shift when the gas is pressed. This results in a lose of power and does not allow me to safely maneuver the vehicle in emergency and non-emergency situations. *tr
This is an update to complaint number 10537724 the service bulletin id is 01-13-14 the NHTSA id number is 10052336 I apologize for any confusion. Complaint number 10537724 should read using the above service bulletin id and NHTSA id number. *tt
I continue to experience the issue outlined in complaint number [xxx]parts of this document have been redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c (b)(6)., unsafe accelerator lag gas pedal delay no response, from my vw jetta. I am trying to get a copy of the service bulletin, tsb#01-13-14, NHTSA#10052336. Edmunds directs you to all data diy, alldata.com, to get tsbs. All datadiy does not have my vehicle, 2013 volkswagen jetta, in their drop down list and as you will see in the attached email "they do not have that information in there database yet". So I asked them for the tsb 01-13-14, aka NHTSA id 10052336, from the 2012 jetta database, since this tsb# seems to be associated with most 2008-2013 models of vw jetta, golf, rabbit, beetle, eos, cc, passat, gti, r32, tiguan, touareg and the 2011 touareg hybrid. According to the email reply from alldatadiy there is no such service bulletin. When do they sync with your system? Shouldn't they have this service bulletin. Attached email: from alldata support for log id:15679419 1 message support@alldata.com…
Also reported on the 2013 Volkswagen Jetta
Other electrical problem
Other powertrain problem
Other engine problem
Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
Fuel pump failure
Other steering problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 9 reports 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 9 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.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other speed control problem happen on the 2013 Volkswagen Jetta?
Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 35,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other speed control problem on the 2013 Volkswagen Jetta?
9 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
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