 Here are the problems I have had with the Tiguan over the past two years which together make me believe that the car is unsafe to drive.The worst problem is that even at the highest setting, the windshield wipers are too slow.  This makes the car DANGEROUS in a heavy rain.  It is also tricky finding the shut off setting on the wipers and so it generally takes at least a couple of tries.   To add to the problem the headlights are too dim.  The dealer says they are okay but they aren’t.  The visibility to the right is poor if you are tall.  The seat does not go down far enough and so your view is obstructed to the right.  And if the backseats are in the up position, the rear view mirror is worthless because the head rests are too high. So we have the mid-section down all the time to see out the back.  But that kills a lot of space.  The head rests do not appear to be removable. All headrests are not comfortable for people who are 5'4" or 6'0" and they are hard and so even though the seats are otherwise quite comfortable, for a long trip, the car is not comfortable. The back seats only go down to about a 30 degree angle which means you lose a lot of what you thought was space for cargo.  Turning off the turn signal turns out to be a trick; you go all the way left and all the way right and eventually find the middle which turns it off; bad engineering.   The gas pedal is overactive and so there is a tendency to lurch forward.  The keys to the car have automatic locking (sometimes).  My car has been robbed twice because I thought it was locked and we come back all the time to find it is unlocked.  Again, the dealer could not find a problem.  The turning radius is pathetic; more like a truck.  Like other cars, the automatic windows are annoying because it takes an effort to open a window a crack (going all the way down and all the way up).  The red security light when the car is off is a tip off for car thieves.  Brilliant feature.  There is a ticking noise in the back that the car repair guys have no idea what it is but it is annoying on a trip.  The backup system is out of date already; not bad, but not good either.  The radio has Sirius and is otherwise too complicated.   The Bluetooth no longer works.  The gas indicator is fairly uniform until you get to the red zone.  Then you have 20 miles, but it looks like ¼ a tank on the dial. Learned this the hard way. The gas door rusts very easily.  You have to clean it every time but it is still rusting.  The rest of the car has not had that problem, but we don’t get salt on the car.  You have to go to a dealer to reset the warning messages on the dash even if it’s an easy fix.  Also some of the messages are big brother watching.   In the front seat console, the slots are too deep and narrow.  So you have to rent a 3 year old to get stuff out of there.