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2013 Volkswagen Touareg repairs by problem area
Engine (54%)
Transmission and Drivetrain (1%)
Brakes and Traction Control (6%)
Suspension and Steering (2%)
Electrical and Air Conditioning (29%)
Paint, Rust, Leaks, Rattles, and Trim (4%)
Other (4%)
Chart based on 101 repairs.
2013 Volkswagen Touareg repair cost distribution
$2500+ (0%)
$1000 - $2499 (3%)
$500 - $999 (6%)
$100 - $499 (25%)
< $100 (67%)
Chart based on 69 repair trips. The repair cost chart excludes repairs made under warranty, do-it-yourself repairs, and repair trips that include maintenance.
2013 Volkswagen Touareg 4dr SUV
turbocharged 340hp 4.1L V8 Diesel 8-speed shiftable automatic AWD
| Volkswagen Touareg in Chile Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 | |||
| Jun 201635960 mi$115 | Left rear TPMS failure, replaced with OEM sensor | ||
2013 Volkswagen Touareg 4dr SUV
turbocharged 245hp 3.0L V6 Diesel 8-speed shiftable automatic AWD w/low range
| Volkswagen Touareg in British Columbia, Canada Nov 2020 - Jul 2022 | |||
| Jul 202293000 mi | Check engine light illuminated due to leak in exhaust. Catalytic converter is back ordered and indeterminate time to get replacement. Loaner car provided and all costs covered by extended warranty (Diesel engine that VW cheated emissions testing) | ||
2013 Volkswagen Touareg 4dr SUV
turbocharged 240hp 3.0L V6 Diesel 8-speed shiftable automatic AWD
| Volkswagen Touareg in Alaska, United States Feb 2015 - Mar 2018 | |||
| Jul 201667500 mi | Replaced ad blue heater. Warranty covered. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Alabama, United States May 2015 - Jun 2018 | |||
| Oct 201550800 miUS $25 | Driver's door lock switch replacement | ||
| Oct 201793000 miUS $175 | The turbo damper was also replaced during this visit because of a slight oil leak. Rear main seal / crankshaft seal replacement. Repaired under power train warranty. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Minnesota, United States Nov 2014 - Jun 2018 | |||
| Aug 201520800 mi | egr temp sensor. replaced under warrenty | ||
| Aug 201746000 mi | bad adblue heater, under warranty | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Tennessee, United States Sep 2012 - Sep 2018 | |||
| Mar 20138000 mi | loose connector | ||
| May 201772000 miUS $100 | replaced AC head unit. covered by extended warranty | ||
| Mar 201883000 mi | Bad EGR Valve | ||
| May 201889000 miUS $100 | bad window motor | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in New York, United States Feb 2014 - Nov 2015 | |||
| Feb 201410000 mi | wheel arch trim piece was not seated properly | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Minnesota, United States Sep 2013 - Sep 2014 | |||
| Jun 201426000 mi | Seat heater malfunction. Replaced seat. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Indiana, United States Apr 2016 - Apr 2017 | |||
| Jan 201789303 miUS $1200 | Adblue heater faulted. Replaced. Door handle shorted. Replaced | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Washington, United States Jan 2021 - Jul 2022 | |||
| Jan 2022132000 mi | Coolant leak from the EGR heat exchanger base gasket and also another nearby gasket leak. (2 separate repairs). Repair covered by EPA settlement warranty. repair def heater | ||
| Feb 2022133000 mi | same coolant leak, apparently this visit was to order parts first leak was said to have been repaired. Now there is a second leak. Parts ordered again | ||
| Jun 2022133000 mi | supposed to be second coolant leak | ||
| Jul 2022133000 mi | Car has been in the shop for 5 days and counting. Apparently dealer has only 1 VW tech. Dealer offered loaner and is scheduled for repairs... again | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Maryland, United States Jun 2021 - Jul 2022 | |||
| Sep 202185000 miUS $500 | Speed sensor went out causing many other electronic systems (ABS, ESC) to give out. Sensor needed to be replaced. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Ontario, Canada Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 | |||
| Jan 202291624 mi | Started losing coolant. Based on a pressure test dealer diagnosed a bad EGR cooler. When they took it apart they determined the EGR cooler was ok but replaced the EGR diverter valve. They also identified an additional coolant leak at the oil cooler as well as an oil leak from the oil filter housing and the oil cooler. This is an additional $5000 work out of warranty. I'm challenging them on this as others have had this covered under the extended TDI emmisson warranty. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Florida, United States Mar 2018 - Sep 2018 | |||
| May 201861000 miUS $50 | The gasket on one side of the valve cover had a small leak. The dealer had it in the shop for a couple of weeks just to make sure as I'm friendly with them and have gone to them for 17 years and VW also had to order special Parts because they make them use all new bolts washers from VW it's very specific. So 4 days to wait for parts. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Virginia, United States Jan 2013 - Jun 2018 | |||
| Aug 201761000 mi | Diesel exhaust fluid heater failed. DEF tank assembly replaced under extended warranty. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Arizona, United States Jan 2014 - Feb 2020 | |||
| Jun 201525000 mi | Power lock switch on driver's side. Replaced. | ||
| Jul 201525500 mi | Adblue sensor and heater unit failed, causing engine light. There is some discussion as to whether Adblue fluid should be in high temperatures such as Phoenix. | ||
| Sep 201639000 miUS $50 | Adblue sensor/heater assembly failure | ||
| Mar 201740000 mi | Replace driver's side sun visor, vanity mirror retainer broken. | ||
| Sep 201747450 miUS $50 | Power steering unit replaced. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in California, United States Jul 2014 - Aug 2018 | |||
| Aug 201410800 mi | This new engine,3.0L TDI Version 2 in 2013 with 2 chains, with less oil control ring tension in the bore, seems to consume too much oil, to the point of excessive. Consumed 1.75 liters of 507.00 oil in 10,000 miles. Worried about DPF cloging | ||
| Jul 201520500 mi | 25,000 miles and CNRB motor 240hp tdi still consumes motor oil at an excessive rate. 2012 Touareg tdi also owned does not consume a bit of oil in 10k miles. | ||
| Aug 201843000 miUS $150 | Key Fob would not release from the dash, car would not lock. In dash kept telling me to put the shifter in "Park" so that key could be removed from dash. Transmission selector already was in "Park", and would not release the Key Fob. Ran a VCDS scan and it told me "intermittent or no ground connection at Park selector" Cleared code. Took it to dealership, where I told them the scan and that it needed a new shifter mechanism, the park switch inside the shifter mechanism was defective, at 42 k miles, in a car that spent 99% of it's days garaged, inside. They charged me $150 to tell me what I already knew. Wrote a ridiculous estimate for 7 hours of labor and a $770 part to be replaced, about $1800 before taxes on parts. (9.5% here). I called VW Touareg Customer Care, and after much deliberation, they allowed it to be covered under "Customer Goodwill", which is a fancy way of saying it's covered, begrudgingly, under warranty work, by VW of America. This part is failing, regularly. It took a MONTH, with a vehicle that would not lock up, and was vulnerable to theft at any moment, by any passerby, before the car was finally fixed. It's an actual 2 to 2.5 hour job, maximum, service writer made up some BS story about how long it takes. VW, under warranty, pays book time. A dealership in Texas in 2016, whose invoice I saw, charged $940 for the part, and $248 for 2 hours of labor, to the customer, on a 2014, with the exact same part and problem. VW's vendor that builds these shifter boxes, are putting out a defective crap, prone to failure part that the magnets or switch breaks, and since VW has gone to modularaized parts with many switches on the shift box, the whole box needs to be changed out, where as previously, in earlier models, like a 2012 or 2011, the switch could just be changed out. Report this to NHSTA as a defective recall item. Part took 3 WEEKS to get from Germany to the warehouse, to the dealership, because VW of America doesn't keep the part in stock in any of it's 5 warehouses. This part seems to be very prone to fail in summer time, due to hot, or dry weather causing the plastic to dry out, crack, and failure to maintain the switch in a functioning manner. Defective materials or defective engineering in play here, part is not structurally sound. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Colorado, United States Apr 2013 - Aug 2014 | |||
| May 201429600 mi | The Ad Blue warning light came on right after 30000 mi service (where they re-filled the tank). Took back the next week, they repaired the sensor. Seats occasionally move back after parking. Upon return have to reset the seats using the memory. Dealer could not find the problem and of course it didn't happen while they had the vehicle. The Ad Blue warning light came on right after 30000 mi service (where they re-filled the tank). Took back the next week, they repaired the sensor. Seats occasionally move back after parking. Upon return have to reset the seats using the memory. Dealer could not find the problem and of course it didn't happen while they had the vehicle. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Michigan, United States Jul 2013 - Jun 2022 | |||
| Mar 201522000 mi | Slight oil leak from engine. Dealer did not use new crush ring on oil drain plug during previous routine oil change resulting in small leak. Replaced with new crush ring. Dealer also forgot to refill Diesel exhaust fluid tank. | ||
| Dec 201754000 mi | Diesel AdBlue heater failed, replaced under warranty | ||
| Mar 201968000 mi | Check Engine Light came on, Dealer found bad NOx sensor, replaced under warranty | ||
| Apr 201970000 miUS $166 | A/C weak, determined to be leaking condensor and O ring seals. Condensor and O rings replaced | ||
| Aug 201974000 mi | Check Engine light came on, dealer diagnosed EGR Change Over Valve failure and EGR Cooler failure. Both replaced after waiting 13 days for parts | ||
| Mar 202080000 mi | Rear main seal leaking heavily | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Indiana, United States Dec 2013 - Sep 2020 | |||
| Jun 201416000 mi | AC blower motor would shut off. Replaced blower motor. | ||
| Mar 201636000 mi | O2 sensor was bad. Replaced O2 sensor under warranty. | ||
| Jun 201750000 mi | AD Blue heater was replaced under extended warranty. Check engine light came on because of defective AD Blue heater. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in North Carolina, United States May 2013 - Jul 2018 | |||
| May 201429600 mi | Drivers door lock switch | ||
| Aug 201436000 mi | Check engine light, Faulty Particulate sensor replaced. | ||
| Feb 201681600 miUS $100 | AdBlue heater | ||
| Sep 2016100000 miUS $100 | High pressure fuel pump caused engine light to com on. Replaced pump. The engine had to be removed from the car and the exhaust manifold was removed during that process. | ||
| Jul 2017124000 mi | Replaced exhaust manifold gasket. The car was in for a repair 6 months earlier that required the removal of the exhaust manifold. So I believe that either the new gasket was defective or improperly installed. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Oregon, United States Dec 2012 - Jun 2018 | |||
| Nov 201529900 mi | Heat intermittent (would not come on 2 times). Two fault codes found, no time to explore at the time. Will return the car for further diagnosis. | ||
| Apr 201632300 mi | Same problem as reported in Nov.2015: intermittent heating. Diagnostics now complete, part ordered and has arrived. Will be fixed in a few days. | ||
| May 201742000 miUS $700 | AdBlue inoperable. Repaired under warranty | ||
| Dec 201748000 mi | Court-mandated emissions changes | ||
| Apr 201849000 mi | Faulty EGR cooler | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Washington, United States Apr 2013 - Nov 2018 | |||
| May 201418800 mi | Sun roof had been creaking during operation and finally failed to close. Dealer replaced the frame. Sun roof operation is now smooth and quiet. No cost to me as car is under warranty. | ||
| Jun 201420000 mi | Bluetooth phone connection problem. Will occur infrequently for several days, but on 2 separate trips to dealer would not occur. No evidence in onboard computer. Problem not solved as yet,but not happening currently. | ||
| Sep 201423000 mi | Car's bluetooth/ phone integration not fixed. Dealer has ordered bluetooth replacement. | ||
| Oct 201423700 mi | Bluetooth module replaced due to intermittent problem. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Pennsylvania, United States Oct 2012 - Sep 2017 | |||
| Nov 201313000 mi | oil level seemed to be dropping to quickly during oil change frequency | ||
| Oct 201537200 miUS $150 | Indicated system problem. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in California, United States May 2013 - Jan 2018 | |||
| Aug 20133700 mi | faulty ABS control module. Set off the ABS light and other lights.rnBrought it in Saturday. The faulty module diagnosed Monday. Part ordered though service thought there would be delay. Came Wednesday and installed same day. | ||
| Aug 201688000 mi | Fuel Pump failure while on the freeway. Car went on shutdown. Warranty covered repairs but dealer had to submit request via lab test of fuel sample to get approval of repairs. | ||
| Sep 2017122000 mi | Tailgate will close w/o push of button on the tailgate door or on the key fob. Dealer diagnosed that the shocks were faulty. Estimate of parts & labor = $1650. Decided just to live with it. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Arkansas, United States Dec 2013 - Mar 2014 | |||
| Feb 201418800 mi | The dealer said it was a bad clip. Failed to resolve issue and subsequently failed to resolve. It was a terrible body creak. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Washington, United States Aug 2013 - Apr 2022 | |||
| Jun 201533000 mi | 02 sensor | ||
| Aug 201648000 miUS $761 | Ad blue heater failed and a new Adblue heater was installed | ||
| Apr 201871000 mi | Car went into limp mode on interstate I-5 could not drive over 35 mph, slower up a small grade. Replaced the ( EGR ) Valve, car was in the shop for 2 days and repair took 6.5 hours. Because I had the Diesel Fix there was no charge to me. | ||
| Aug 2021111000 mi | Fault code P2459 Replacement of dpf | ||
| Apr 2022118000 miUS $281 | Replaced cylinder 2 glow plug with pressure sensor | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Pennsylvania, United States Sep 2013 - Jun 2022 | |||
| Apr 201523500 mi | Fuel pump and fuel pump control module were replaced. | ||
| Mar 201632000 mi | Glow plug warning light flashes intermittently. Fault for fuel transfer pump G6 short circuit. Electric fuel pump (20661900) was removed and a new one was installed. Module (7P6-919-088-B) and Washer (8E0-919-133-B) were also replaced. | ||
| May 201742000 mi | The armature in the starter went bad, so the starter was replaced. The car was out of warranty, a 2013 with 42K miles, at the time of the defect. I initially was told I was beyond the warranty for the repair. I contacted VM Customer Service to state a bad starter after such a short period of time was crazy. After the first person had no resolution, I asked to speak with his supervisor who called the local VW service. They agreed to replace the starter under warranty. I am also a 5 time VW owner which helped. All is well. | ||
| Dec 201747000 mi | The AdBlue Heater was defective. The car had a check engine light (yellow) and the scanner produced a P202A code. The part that was replaced has a part# 7P6-198-970-B. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Illinois, United States Oct 2012 - Jan 2022 | |||
| May 201312000 mi | Drivers side window motor had to be replaced when the original became faulty. | ||
| Dec 201438000 miUS $400 | Glow plug light came on requiring 3 separate visits to the dealer. | ||
| Mar 201541000 miUS $50 | Driver side lower cushion seat heater element. | ||
| Sep 201544000 miUS $50 | AdBlue heater failure. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Iowa, United States Nov 2012 - Jan 2018 | |||
| Apr 201643500 miUS $100 | DEF tank heater shorted out. | ||
2013 Volkswagen Touareg 4dr SUV
turbocharged 204hp 3.0L V6 Diesel 8-speed shiftable automatic AWD
| Volkswagen Touareg in Great Britain Dec 2012 - May 2020 | |||
| Jun 201720000 mi | Blocked washer jets on rear wash wipe. A persistent problem the dealer has failed to resolve | ||
| Feb 201822000 mi£350 | Sensor failure on rear offside wheel disabled ABS and put car in 'limp dick' mode. | ||
| Apr 201822000 mi£600 | Out of the country for five week, came back to flat tyre. Too much rough off roading... Tyres failed | ||
| May 201822000 mi£350 | Sensor failure on rear wheel put car into speed limited 'drive hme' mode whilst out in the sticks. Collected on low loader, part replaced | ||
2013 Volkswagen Touareg 4dr SUV
280-horsepower 3.6L V6 8-speed shiftable automatic AWD
| Volkswagen Touareg in Washington, United States Sep 2012 - Oct 2013 | |||
| Sep 201317000 mi | Window would go up and down | ||
| Oct 201317000 mi | Vehicle would shake on freeway. No resolution...Car was lemoned and bought back | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Florida, United States Aug 2016 - Jun 2022 | |||
| Sep 201631000 miUS $300 | Multiple warnings on dash display. Dealer found faulty left rear ABS wheel sensor. Replaced. | ||
| Sep 201751000 miUS $100 | AC ventilation system failed. Shop took 20 days to diagnose and repair. Involved pulling the entire dash, replacing several servos and motors, as well as the main control module. Repairs completed under CPO warranty. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Wyoming, United States May 2014 - Jul 2020 | |||
| Jun 201431000 mi | Vinegar smell from AC system. Dealer cleaned system, no longer smells. | ||
| Oct 201435300 mi | Sirius couldn't be activated when car was purchased. Dealer replaced audio head unit under warranty. Now dash computer and new unit are not "talking" so have another appt. scheduled. | ||
| Dec 201437000 mi | Dash display not communicating with head unit. Dealer corrected relatively quickly without parts. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Alberta, Canada Sep 2014 - Sep 2015 | |||
| Mar 201524180 mi | KESSY system was not working due to a faulty door handle, repalced door handle under warranty | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Pennsylvania, United States Jan 2014 - Jan 2022 | |||
| Jun 201541000 mi | Catalytic converter came apart, causing bad sound like open exhaust and throwing a CEL. Replace under warranty | ||
| Apr 201770000 miUS $640 | Replaced leaking water pump | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Minnesota, United States Oct 2017 - Jan 2020 | |||
| Dec 201770000 mi | engine cooling fans were on max speed while the car was cold or warm. It would start on max when I turn it on, and stay on for a while after car turned off. We thought it might be the thermostat, but dealer said that the ECU had to be re-flashed after a TSB, and that did the trick. | ||
| Feb 201874000 miUS $350 | Passenger xenon headlight bulb went out and needed to be replaced. | ||
| Volkswagen Touareg in Florida, United States Mar 2016 - Mar 2018 | |||
| Mar 201896000 miUS $1150 | Catalytic Converter Brakes | ||
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