The incident was damned interesting (ultimately the finding is the engine driven (secondary?) fuel pump died).
My wife was driving into town when the Passat just died. She is both an artist and grew up working on a farm/ranch. Her descriptions are terrific and accurate, and she has great reflexes and judgment in handling stuff like that.
So, when she said it just died, she knew to include the fact there was no sputtering or surging or anything else, but like someone turned a switch off. Zero previous indication of a problem when I or she was driving.
The good part is she uses the great coasting feature all the time and knows how well and long it will maintain speed if in neutral. She got it into neutral first, then started checking out the options and realized there was a driveway ahead to pull off into that was in coasting range (the only one in over a mile). She coasted in and got it into a parking spot in a small community assist center.
She called me, I got her onto the 800 towing number, off to VW it went. They were baffled initially and had to call the mother ship.
Good news is it happened in town, she handled it well. We had made some berry picking trips up North around 100 miles. Up here that’s 100 miles from anything. That would have been interesting, and certainly bad in the wrong places where no place to get off the road (very narrow in places) or while passing.
My wife was driving into town when the Passat just died. She is both an artist and grew up working on a farm/ranch. Her descriptions are terrific and accurate, and she has great reflexes and judgment in handling stuff like that.
So, when she said it just died, she knew to include the fact there was no sputtering or surging or anything else, but like someone turned a switch off. Zero previous indication of a problem when I or she was driving.
The good part is she uses the great coasting feature all the time and knows how well and long it will maintain speed if in neutral. She got it into neutral first, then started checking out the options and realized there was a driveway ahead to pull off into that was in coasting range (the only one in over a mile). She coasted in and got it into a parking spot in a small community assist center.
She called me, I got her onto the 800 towing number, off to VW it went. They were baffled initially and had to call the mother ship.
Good news is it happened in town, she handled it well. We had made some berry picking trips up North around 100 miles. Up here that’s 100 miles from anything. That would have been interesting, and certainly bad in the wrong places where no place to get off the road (very narrow in places) or while passing.
