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Old 11-17-2005, 04:23 PM
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Re: Re: Damsel in Distress '99 Jetta bogs down

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Originally Posted by 57ringo
I've had several american cars do that and it was the fuel filter inside the tank that was plugged. It runs untill it's starved for fuel then bogs down. If you let it set for a while, it would let the stuff settle out of the filter and run ok untill it sucked the filter full again. May not be your problem but wouldn't hurt to check.

It would have to be throwing a CEL. Plug it in to a code scanner. It should find a trouble code.
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