Dont know what's wrong with my car

Asked by Kota Dec 19, 2018 at 02:39 AM about the 1997 Volkswagen Jetta GT

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

On 12/17/18:
I would get into my car to start it and when I turned the
ignition it would start but then bog down and want to die
immediately.Then when I tried it again it would start up just
fine.
Then when driving, I would shift into second gear and it
would bog down and want to die but I would immediately
take it out of gear when it did that and it would be fine. It
also only did this randomly, not every time. And once I
would take it out and put it back into second it would drive
fine.
12/18/18
Then today it was doing it all more than usual. And then it
started bogging down and wanting to die again when I
would put into first as well as second. Then finally when I
parked it for a hour and tried to start it again, it started for a
sec, then bogged down and died. I tried to start it again and
it just kept turning over and would not start at all. Can
someone help me figure it out?

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