Comments on: Key stuck on your Passat ignition?

By: Seedz00

Seedz00 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:52:00 +0000

Yay for the Internet! My 1 key is now FREE from my 2008 Passat!!!

By: Drizzo36

Drizzo36 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:08:00 +0000

Wow! This just saved my Dad a whole bunch of money as we were going to bring it to the dealer… ’99 Passat and the shifter button was stuck. We’d been trying everything to get this fixed and AAA had no clue. Thanks!!!

By: Philax5

Philax5 — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:01:00 +0000

It worked for me and my 2000 Passat…I couldn’t push the button with the shifter in Park, so I moved it down and over all the while pressing the button. The button went in after moving the shifter out of park, and voila! Thanks!

By: Mtywe

Mtywe — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:12:00 +0000

Ok, I have a 2002 passat and recently had this issue but what I found to work to prevent this is to first put the car in park Secondly take your foot off the brake then turn the car off. Since I’ve done this the key has never gotten stuck in the ignition.

By: www.centralcontracts.com

www.centralcontracts.com — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:21:00 +0000

This is a major design flaw

By: Jmart0169

Jmart0169 — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:35:14 +0000

THANK YOU!!!! I appreciate your help! this really worked. We accidently used an old key we had lost and it got stuck in the ignition.

Thanks again

By: Tdinh

Tdinh — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:04:26 +0000

Thank you! I was watching a friends car and needed to move it off the streets and the same thing happened. Read some other blogs about issues with wires but didn't find any to jiggle. Found your site and it worked like a charm. Thought I was going to have to take it in before they came back.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:47:37 +0000

Thank you so much locked my 07 passat with my wifes keys . She has a 2010 passat. Pushed the fob button and the keys came out. Thank you so much saved me money.
Sincerely,
Andrew

By: Judah Rosenthal

Judah Rosenthal — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:38:24 +0000

Thanks! Now my car doesn't have to go into the shop for “at least a day”. VW folks said they'd never heard this either (& your incident was from 3 years ago…)

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:08:08 +0000

My 1999 Passat had a more severe problem. I have had the problem discussed by others but my shifter would not enter PARK easily and the button would not come out. Since the temperature was around zero fahrenheit I decided to leave the key in the ignition and remove the fob so I could at least lock the car. I assumed that as soon as temperature reached 32 degrees to shifter would work normally and a few days later the tempertures rose and the problem disappeared.