I bought the Taos 2022 about 7 months ago, new in the agency. On Thursday I put gasoline to it, on Friday the EPC light was on while I was parking, so I turned it off, and then on again and it disappear, today is Monday and the car out of nowhere turned off, it took me 5 minutes to turn it on again, I was on traffic, so it was not a big caos, but still very dangerous, when I turned it in again the gas indicator was red, so I stopped at a gas station with the EPC light still on, when I turned it off the light disappear and again the car stoped and it took me again about 3 minutes to start it. I just took it to the agency and they told me it could be the bad quality of the gasoline or that it was in reserve (the thing is that I didn't even use the car that much on the weekend, so why was my gasoline spent that fast? Can you imagine a car stopping in the middle of the road? I feel very insecure

There's simply no reason to risk buying a Taos. My aging parents switched to a new 2023 Taos when they found they could not drive as much to save money on repairs. Big mistake... TRANSMISSION IS UNSAFE AS DESIGNED The sudden halts and lurches of the Taos' erratic transmission and brakes have proven dangerous for my 90 yr old parents. These built-in operational hazards at any speed are especially unavoidable and unforgiving at every acceleration from a full stop. First gear is inescapably geared too low, and it takes far too long to shift up into each gear, forcing lurches with slight accelerations at any speed. Smooth acceleration is simply not possible. I made every adjustment to my foot pressure and timing possible to work around the Taos' unsafe transmission til the first 10,000 mile service. Citi VW in Evanston, IL claimed to then update the transmission software. This fixed nothing. It's still unsafe to operate w/passengers in normal traffic. In typical bumper-to-bumper Chicago traffic even the most gentle acceleration at very low speeds risks sudden rear-end collisions. The service attendant did acknowledge many customers have been frustrated with the same issue to the point of having to replace the car altogether. He also recommended trying the Taos' semi-manual shifting. This of course only adds a distracting task while driving, and reveals how unjustifiably low first gear really is. [Note: Many states have enforceable Lemon Laws which require the dealer to provide a full refund or replacement after 4 repair attempts before the first 12,000 miles of a new car.] All car manufacturers figured out how to set gear ratios for smooth acceleration many decades ago. It just makes no sense that VW forgot how with the Taos. FRONT WINDOW LEVERS MALFUNCTION When you lift the window lever the windows go up—but about 30% of the time they go down instead. This same malfunction occurs when pressing the levers down. The service desk said they replaced the entire window motor. This fixed nothing. Curiously, he also said he cleaned out the window wells in the door as debris (?) there can affect the functionality. I've never heard this about any car. NAVIGATION SYSTEM - DISABLES GOOGLE MAPS Connecting via CarPlay Wi-Fi disables all iPhone Google and Apple Maps apps. This renders all of my daily route planning useless, and requires re-entering them all into the sub-standard Taos' navigation tool, which can't hold my full route list, and lacks basic G-Maps functions. ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM - MULTIPLE PERSISTENT ISSUES - Several times each week it will produce no sound. Turning the volume knob makes the red 'volume level' line at the top grow to the right, but no sound comes from any speaker. The following malfunctions occur many times a day which do never occur when this iPhone is connected to ANY other Bluetooth device: - Taos system will suddenly play music or podcasts at very high speed...then pause...the play at high speed...then pause...etc. This requires shutting both the Taos system and iPhone off, reconnecting, and trying again, still often not leading to normal function. Pulling the car over and turning the car off can sometimes help, but not usually. - Taos system sporadically switches mid-podcast to a random song or other podcast. – Taos system will begin playing a song with none selected—when the iTunes app is not even on. - Taos system will display a different title it is playing, often from a different app. -Taos system frequently claims no device is connected when the iPhone clearly displays that it's connected via Bluetooth. The service desk said there was a just software update needed and that they updated that. Again, this fixed NOTHING. DO NOT BUY A TAOS. There are many new car options with none of these issues filling this and other car forums. Skip the months of gaslighting by VW and its dealers.

I bought the 22 model in Apr of 22 and had it about a year and the ac compressor went out. It took them a couple of months to get one and when they did they found that it had metal shavings all in the lines so they had to replace everything in the circuit. They gave us a loaner car for two weeks and so far it’s been working fine. Have had a couple of software updates so far but no other issues. Have just turned 10,000 miles. The transmission is jerky so I basically drive it around in sport mode to keep it from dropping into the highway gear. Overall we like it