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Vw beetle 2001 2.0 ltr engine. the other day after around a 30 min journey the temp red light started to flash so i stopped the car at home......checked water and oil...water seemed low so i topped up left car then the next day had to drive car for another 30 minute journy every 5 mins i had to stop as the red temp light kept flashing telling me the car was over heating the water was also spilling out from somewhere a kinda redish watery color under the water tank.... i finaly got the car home after 2 hrs stopping to cool down then starting again what could be wrong?
Re: Vw beetle 2001 2.0 ltr engine. the other day after...
Hands on job iam afraid,could be anything from a housing to a core plug and everything inbetween,call a mobile mechanic and in 20 secs he will diagnose the problem
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you sound like your catylitic converter is trying to stop up. When this happens check and have someone race the engine and fill and see if you have a good flow of exhaust coming out of your tail pipe and see if it is real hot .A good way is if it happens at night look at yourn converter and see if its red from the converter to the engine thats a sure sign thats your converter is stopped up.If its not then if the light stays on go to an advance store or some other place and they wont charge you to check and tell you what the obd 2 code is and post that back and let me know what the code is .Hope This Helps
If your oil is not low and your oil light is flashing I recomend you find someone who can do an oil pressure test, those vehicles have been known to clog up the oil pickup screen and starve the engine for oil. if your car has the 2.0 liter engine I recomend 5w 30 oil its good for all temp ranges.
Start with checking your coolant level( only use VW coolant if low). If full, change out your coolant temp sensor. Buy the one from the dealership. The others are ****.
run a scan tool on it and make sure there are no codes, if there is codes address those problems first, if no codes.. next time it won't start check for fuel preasure. it is probably a fuel pump getting ready to go out or they may be a large amount of something other than gas clogging the pick-up sock at bottom of fuel pump.
If the light goes out after engine gets alittle warm, this is normal. Since there is no temp guage, VW uses this light to inform that the engine is cold. When that same light flashes red, it means that the coolant is low or the engine is overheating.
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