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VW 01 BEETLE PUTRID INTERIOR ODOR
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<blockquote data-quote="Dale McMurry" data-source="post: 707419" data-attributes="member: 63821"><p>In April of 2001 I bought my wife a new VW Beetle Turbo for her birthday. After a period of</p><p></p><p>time there developed an odor that smelled like crayons and it progressively got worse over</p><p></p><p>a long period. Last year it started to cause headaches, sore throat, and allergys to the point</p><p></p><p>she didn't want to drive the car. (45,000 miles). The dealer said he had never heard of this </p><p></p><p>but would check TSB for information. The typical response was that he could not find </p><p></p><p>anything on the subject.</p><p></p><p>I did a search on the internet for information and found other owners had complained about</p><p></p><p>this problem and VW admitted a problem, they got a bad batch of contaminated insulating</p><p></p><p>material (glue) installed in some cars (New Beetle and Jetta). The fix is to remove carpeting, seats, dashboard and then replace all of the insulation from firewall to rear trunk.</p><p></p><p>When my wife showed the service writer this information he went and called a factory</p><p></p><p>rep and was told to fix the problem even though it was way out of warranty. VW probably</p><p></p><p>does not want a class action suite. Car will be ready Monday, we shall see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dale McMurry, post: 707419, member: 63821"] In April of 2001 I bought my wife a new VW Beetle Turbo for her birthday. After a period of time there developed an odor that smelled like crayons and it progressively got worse over a long period. Last year it started to cause headaches, sore throat, and allergys to the point she didn't want to drive the car. (45,000 miles). The dealer said he had never heard of this but would check TSB for information. The typical response was that he could not find anything on the subject. I did a search on the internet for information and found other owners had complained about this problem and VW admitted a problem, they got a bad batch of contaminated insulating material (glue) installed in some cars (New Beetle and Jetta). The fix is to remove carpeting, seats, dashboard and then replace all of the insulation from firewall to rear trunk. When my wife showed the service writer this information he went and called a factory rep and was told to fix the problem even though it was way out of warranty. VW probably does not want a class action suite. Car will be ready Monday, we shall see. [/QUOTE]
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