kevinkar
Drag Racing Champion
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And you prove my point about the car being inconsistent. We the owners should NOT expect the car to simply "do what it wants" whether I've read the f-ing manual or not. We also should not expect the car to shut the engine off if you put the gear selector in Park as NO CAR EVER has done that in my 40 years of driving no matter how much you seem to think that's OK, especially if the "designers designed it that way."Your OP said the engine was off--but then suddenly one day it wasn't off.
What's to say that when you first had it, the SYSTEM was or wasn't off? You didn't know. All you knew was that the engine was not running.
Unless the SYSTEM is off, anything can happen.
(And, of course, if the SYSTEM was on but it turned the engine off while it was in your garage, what's to say it wouldn't turn the engine off while on the road?)
Anyway, if the system is not off the engine should NEVER turn back on. PERIOD.
So the question remains (whether you fixate on my use of the term "working right" or not) what causes the engine to shut off when shifting to Park? If we as owners are not privy to that logic, then VW has created a problem it needs to fix.