I have a 2004 Passat that I purchased on May 24. It now has 8100 miles on it. I consistently use the cruise control. On three occasions while pushing the resume button the cruise control became inoperable. It remained inoperable until the ignition was shut down and restarted.
The first time it happened I took it to VW. Nothing was detected on the computer and they said it was "operating according to sepcts."
After the curise control stopped operating two additional times while returning from Bloomington Ill. to Fred. Va. last week, I stopped by the the VW garage today. I was told by the service manager that until the cruise is not operating when I bring the car in, there is nothing they can do. (He is going to check to see if VW has issued a service bulltin on the problem, however.)
Has anyone had this problem, and if so, was it fixed? Any advice?
By the way, the car averaged on the round trip from Va. to IL:
- 40.0 MPG (824 miles) going out, and
- 37.4 MPG (814 miles) returing. Note: One leg of the return trip(400 miles) was in strong head winds and torrential rains. That leg averaged 35.9 MPG which brought the average down to the 37.4 MPG.)
The first time it happened I took it to VW. Nothing was detected on the computer and they said it was "operating according to sepcts."
After the curise control stopped operating two additional times while returning from Bloomington Ill. to Fred. Va. last week, I stopped by the the VW garage today. I was told by the service manager that until the cruise is not operating when I bring the car in, there is nothing they can do. (He is going to check to see if VW has issued a service bulltin on the problem, however.)
Has anyone had this problem, and if so, was it fixed? Any advice?
By the way, the car averaged on the round trip from Va. to IL:
- 40.0 MPG (824 miles) going out, and
- 37.4 MPG (814 miles) returing. Note: One leg of the return trip(400 miles) was in strong head winds and torrential rains. That leg averaged 35.9 MPG which brought the average down to the 37.4 MPG.)