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Other fuel system problem on the 2018 Volkswagen Jetta

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 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $300–$2,200
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 16th

When other fuel system problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other fuel system problem on the 2018 Volkswagen Jetta. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 16th 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–$2,200 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.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 20 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2005 at 105,000 miles.

By volume the 2010 carries the most reports, with 100; the 2018 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 1997 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1998 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
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  3. 1999 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 40k
  4. 2000 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 106k
  5. 2001 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 46k
  6. 2002 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 73k
  7. 2003 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 89k
  8. 2004 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 82k
  9. 2005 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 107k
  10. 2006 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 90k
  11. 2007 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 85k
  12. 2008 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 53k
  13. 2009 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 48k
  14. 2010 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 46k
  15. 2011 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 16k
  16. 2012 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 12k
  17. 2013 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 47k
  18. 2014 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 68k
  19. 2015 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 43k
  20. 2016 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 40k
  21. 2017 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 65k
  22. 2018 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  23. 2019 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem 8k
  24. 2020 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
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  25. 2021 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
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  26. 2022 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2023 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
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  28. 2024 Volkswagen Jetta other fuel system problem
    no odometer readings given
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Also reported on the 2018 Volkswagen Jetta

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