20 Most Recent 1998 Volkswagen Beetle - Page 6 Questions & Answers

What lights are on on the dash, I'd check your fluids (coolant especially) .

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Is The battery charging when the engine is running? The voltage at the battery should be close to 14 volts DC when the engine is running at about twice the idle speed. If it is then it may be worth checking that your regulator/Rectifier has failed.

may be you should make a diagnostic and you can do it in a garage or you can do it by yourself if you want to do it by yourself you need some tools and you can find some good ones here: spobd2.com

Just straight to the point, that is the sensor problem. just check this 2 sensor. ITS- INTERIOR TEMPARATURE SENSOR, OTS-outside temparature sensor. the sensor is faulty. couldnt get the reading and translater to ECU. so ecu didnt work on it.

Check fault codes.

bad fuse euro cars look under hood for fuse box american cars check around kisck plate or around drivers knees

Simple fix i've done several of these cars. Remove all 4 coilpacs, inside there are 4 connectors, take a needlenose pliar and twist the connectors JUST SLIGHTLY reconnect with dialelectric grease and you are good to go! i used to replace plugs and coilpacs till i found this simple solution the connector is bad sou we are using a new area to make connection by twisting the connector. works like a charm!

if it started after changing the oil the oil cooler loosend up have to pull the filter back off and tighten the oil cooler back down

The face plate buttons actually activate small buttons on a printed circuit board behind the face plate. When I removed the radio and then the face plate many small pieces of plastic fell from behind the face plate. These small plastic pieces align the face plate button to the printed circuit board buttons. My Beeetle is almost 10 1/2 years old so I imagine the plastic is just becoming brittle with age. I could not set the radio to FM, so I removed the face plate button and now slide a toothpick in the slot to toggle between FM1 & FM2. Not he best solution, but probably the most inexpensive one. I also made my on tool to remove the radio from a diagram found at: http://www.alientech.net/nbinfo/stereo.html

How about belt.

that is not the ignition switch . it is your theft /locking control module it is not reading the key

Check that the wire to the temp sender unit has not come off and is shorting out on the head.It it is it will read as overheat on the gauge straight away

have you checked the oil level? Any lack of power when light comes on? Any smoke?

To start with, the cooling system is a sealed system, so anytime you have to add coolant it went somewhere. Either an external leak onto the ground, or an engine leak were the engine is burning it.If you added coolant and the heater is not working all the time, the system could have air pockets which would need to be expelled.