NHTSA Complaint #11658759 — 2024 VOLKSWAGEN GTI

SERVICE BRAKES issue reported to NHTSA

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Complaint Details

ODI Number	11658759
Vehicle	2024 VOLKSWAGEN GTI
Component	SERVICE BRAKES
Date of Incident	May 4, 2025
Date Filed	May 4, 2025
Mileage	N/A miles
Crash	No
Fire	No
Injuries	0
Deaths	0
Vehicle Towed	No
State	MD

Consumer Description

The automatic “hill assist” is dangerous in that it makes it easy to stall your car when trying to use your manual transmission. It’s unintuitive and truly frustrating and can cause you to stall your car when you are pulling into traffic. The previous implementation of this on the Mk7 VW GTI’s worked well but VW made this way too intrusive and complicated - and dangerous - on the Mk8 VW GTI’s. There is no option to disabled it or change the behavior.

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