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Posted on May 22, 2008

1999 vw cabrio engine cuts out

My Cabrio was stored for a little more than a year and when I took it out this spring it started fine but when you drive it or even increase the throttle in the driveway the engine cuts out at no particular speed or rpm, when you take your foot off the gas the engine stays running. the computer is giving a code p1580 idle air control but there is no iac on this model. My local VW dealer said it was the throttle body. I replaced the throttle body but it still does the same thing.

  • Anonymous Aug 21, 2008

    Wish I had a fix for it. 1999 cabrio same trouble here. Ours was only without a battery for one week. When we replaced it, the stalling while accelerating happens just as you describe --no trouble idling--and the A/C will not come on. It was recharged at the beginning of this year, was working fine a couple weeks ago. A/C clutch does not engage at all. The light comes on and I've checked for signal at the connector. All good. This only happened after being without electricity for a while. Some anti-theft device, I should imagine, but I haven't solved it.

  • booya891 Nov 13, 2008

    My 99 Cabrio is experiencing almost exactly the same problem. It only began happening immediately after I had a bad battery replaced. The engine cuts out when I'm accelerating and there seems to be no correlation with speed and the engine losing power in this way. The only consistent thing I've noticed is that when I rev the engine in neutral, it loses power around 40 rpm almost every time.

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I had the exact problem with my wifes 99 Cabrio - parked for 9 months. Ended up having to have the shop reprogram the ECU - it then worked fine.

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