As I had posted before with my Suzuki, I have recently been working on a 2002 volkswagen, the symptoms were very perplexing and so I wanted to share the results now that it has been solved. The summary of the list of issue is as follows:
- Failure of the turn signals but the Hazards aka emergency flasher/signal still worked
- so it could not be the lights themselves as they worked with the hazards
- No main headlights, but working fog lights. Tested all the fuses - all okay
- Failure of the windshield wipers
- No heater core aka no fan, heater or AC.
If you check other car help forms, or have a mechanics background, you may have picked up on the issue. I learned just recently myself, it is the Ignition Starter Switch. Thankfully, this addresses all of these problems in one fell swoop, one thing I did notice was that sometimes I would get one system or another back randomly when I hit a bump or something. This was most likely due to the fact that within the switch you could get contact with the rattling on a rough road. (Just to keep in mind if you only had a few of the above issues) Hopefully this will have helped you in finding the issue with your car if you had the same symptoms, I have heard that the VW's especially for the 2000 era cars had particular electrical issues, and wanted to post what I learned. Good luck with your car.
