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Body · 2 owner reports

Other body or interior problem on the 2021 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 2
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.7 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $200–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 20th

When other body or interior problem gets reported

There are 2 reports of other body or interior problem on the 2021 Volkswagen Jetta. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 20th 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 $200–$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.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 23 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 25 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 100,000 miles.

By volume the 2002 carries the most reports, with 109; the 2021 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. 1996 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 102k
  2. 1997 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 81k
  3. 1998 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 50k
  4. 1999 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 90k
  5. 2000 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 73k
  6. 2001 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 49k
  7. 2002 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 47k
  8. 2003 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 55k
  9. 2004 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 91k
  10. 2005 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 74k
  11. 2006 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 86k
  12. 2007 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 65k
  13. 2008 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 69k
  14. 2009 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 54k
  15. 2010 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 61k
  16. 2011 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 43k
  17. 2012 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 48k
  18. 2013 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 38k
  19. 2014 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 46k
  20. 2015 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 45k
  21. 2016 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 53k
  22. 2017 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 25
  23. 2019 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 15k
  24. 2020 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem
    no odometer readings given
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  25. 2021 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  26. 2022 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem
    no odometer readings given
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  27. 2023 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem
    no odometer readings given
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  28. 2024 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem
    no odometer readings given
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  29. 2025 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem 900
  30. 2026 Volkswagen Jetta other body or interior problem
    no odometer readings given
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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 2021 Volkswagen Jetta

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 2 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 2 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