[Aagiants]

My 2002 Passat 48K just got towed Had it parked in the rain for a week. Turn it on and then i get an airbag warning. Turn it off then on, then the dash says "stop" low oil pressure. Turn it on then off same thing, then it dies and wont turn on... Any guesses on what the prob is?

Also warranty is until 50k right?

 

[leadfoot]

Weird....what the heck would cause that?!?

 

[jasonmac]

A lot of leave debris in the battery tray area trapping excess water causing a short?

 

[dgabler]

Here is my guess some flooded module ccm/etc? Reason: to plugged drain lines.

 

[Aagiants]

well it had been raining constantly for 5 days, and my car was outside not used at all...

 

[B5Greg]

water water water...your car has officially been flooded. Electricuted itself.

Sorry to hear man

 

[jikozi]

see if the carpet is wet on the passenger side front and/or back. that may have fried your ecm. or as mentioned above the area by the battery might be shorting?!

 

[weenjoyx]

towed too

got my car towed to the dealer on monday - They haven't got to it yet because they are so busy-
Car just totally shut down while i was driving- NO CEL NO LIGHTS-

2003 Passat 47K miles

 

[Aagiants]

If it is flooding, is that covered under warranty?

 

[BigLarry67]

A car shouldn't go *POOF* because it sits in the rain (but, boy howdy, has it been raining up here in CT). I could see them denying the claim if it was swept away by the raging Housatonic River, but in your case, I think it should be covered. Pretty poor design, IMO, to have a hidden drain that causes bad damage if it gets plugged. Cleaning that puppy out should be on the maintenance schedule... If they try to deny, I'd put up a stink...

BigLarry

 

[Chris30vB5.5]

I'll bet it's as simple as a bad battery. Don't worry. Passats do some wieird shit when the batteries fail. The battery in my 02 died in July....the indications I had were bizzarre. I though it had a major meltdown. Dealer replaced battery; all is good now.

 

[Aagiants]

dont think so. Guy at dealership looked at it. And he said something about components not communicating and he is very confused. He said he is gunna look on it the next morning...

 

[Aagiants]

Turned out to be a bad ABS control module.. or so they think. They hope to get it fixed on wed.. lets hope they do that

 

[jikozi]

damn...guess we were all wrong. hope you get it all taken care of!

 

[PRoJeKV6]

If it's your ABS Module they're going to try to nail you with at least a $1200 bill. They got me, but I didn't know I could have bought a used one, or had mine rebuilt for much cheaper. Watch out.

 

[V-MANN]

If it's your ABS Module they're going to try to nail you with at least a $1200 bill. They got me, but I didn't know I could have bought a used one, or had mine rebuilt for much cheaper. Watch out.

Nope. Looks like the car is still under warranty according to the first post. But yes, anyone out of warranty should look into a used or rebuilt unit instead of the dealer.

 

[Aagiants]

Not sure on laws, but they have to give u an estimate on it before they do any work, correct?

Yes and thank goodness they out of warranty. Free towing, free rental car too. Too bad i dont need the rental car, and im under 21... hah

 

[tsli]

I got the same issue this weekend. I even need to sleep in a shelter on sat. night. In fact, I be able to jack up my car on a ramp that day. And, bucket most of the water out. Got towl on Monday. The dealership willing to fix all the issue under the warranty. But, what kind of aftermath issue will I facing since it consider flooded?

tsli

 

[tsli]

One more thing. It look like is a typical problem for passat. Anyone of you guy interest in suing volkswagen for this.

tsli

 

[4merlycamber]

Mine (2002 1.8T) flooded due to the rain thru the sunroof. Since it flooded my passenger side only, it got to my Tranny computer (TCM?) which caused the all the dummy lights to go on and prevented me from shifting out of Park. I called my trusty NJ VW guy and he instructed me to rip up the carpet, get the TCM out of its tomb (which was loaded with water) and dry out that computer.
I took the computer out of its metal casing (simply bent up the little metal tabs and pulled it apart), took the hair blowdryer to it for a few minutes and replaced it. All is now fine except the airbag light remains on. I attribute this to either the removal of my passenger seat (to dry my carpet and padding) or the leak, which trickled down from the sunroof to the pillar on the passanger side, onto the dash, into the glovebox and dripped onto the passenger floor.

So in the end, it only cost me time as I needed to use the blowdryer, wet/dry vac, and let the car run for about 4 hours with the windows up and the heat blasting!!

So far... all is normal.. except for me?