while driving at 55 mph, the car started hesitating and dropped down the 40 mph then accelerated up to 60 mph

while driving at 55 mph, the car started hesitating and dropped down the 40 mph then accelerated up to 60 mph 2 Answers

1998 new beetle diesel, while driving glow plug will come on and engine will hesitate (bucking the car) then continue running. Happens maybe once a day 1 Answer

Second question - unrelated. Blower for heat and AC will not come on, fuse is good, switch moves as it should

1998 beetle. Went for oil change. As soon as they completed it my check engine light came on. They checked code, was some emmissions code. Okay so the light goes out 2 days later. A few days later the car wont start, like it is out of gas, it's turning but not catching. I let it sit for 1/2 hr then it starts and the engine light back on. Everything fine for a few days then the same thing happens out of the blue. Just happened again to me. Car was fine, no light on then i go somewhere, park it, get back in and it wont start like its out of gas...let it sit for half hour and then it starts like nothing was wrong and the engine light back on now. What could be wrong? I am not out of gas. Did the guy doing the oil change/new filter mess something up? 6 Answers

1998 beetle. Went for oil change. As soon as they completed it my check engine light came on. They checked code, was some emmissions code. Okay so the light goes out 2 days later. A few days later the...

i have a 2000 volkswagon new beetle..was driving fine went out bout 30 mins later to go to store it run slugish missing and sputtering then when tried to start the next morning it wont stay running keep kind of reving up like when in idle what should i check to try to fix 3 Answers

running real slugish will die if mash on gas while idleing

1971 beetle type 1, just had the 1600cc engine rebuilt, picked it up yesterday was driving today and a spark plug shot out of its mount stripping the threads on the engine. why did this happen? 2 Answers

driving the car and heard a loud 'pow' then engine started to run very poorly I pulled into parking lot and found that a spark plug had been blown out of its mount stripping the threads on the engin...