Quote Originally Posted by ASE*Tech View Post
Well he is either not telling you the truth, or at the same time his coil pack went out, or fauled plug, or timing issue, or headgaskt/warped head Not all the times it runs hot, could be leaking into that one cylinder...

Also had a problem with a bad ECU but it was with 2 cylinders though...... also could be a injector but these don't go out that bad but could....


I work on these for a living as most our customers own audii and volks and from me working on about 4,000+ of these cars i can tell you first hand they are crap , hope you think about a better car next time though....... I have seen some run really well and last alittle while, but rare... They have a lot of problems

tranny,axles,wiring,coil packs,maf,turbo,cats,etc you name it I fixed it before on these cars...

Only thing I can nOT seem to fix is the beetles crayon smell ! lololol


Hope some of my info will help you , but I can also tell you the parts are not cheap either

No loss of coolant, runs cool as can be. Put in brand new plugs, and they all still look good. Did the throttle body alignment before I fired the car up. I'm totally clueless on these cars, all I know is that it was running great one minute, after I fixed the headlight switch it started running rough.