Nine problems related to battery have been reported for the 1998 Volkswagen Beetle. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
I purchased a 98' vw new Beetle 3 days ago from a dealer and everyhting seemed fine w/ it until today. The car started over heating and come to find out the engine fuse had melted over the battery teminal that runs the coolant fan. After the fuse was replaced the temp. Light went out the engine light came on. I had the codes read and it sad it was a p0332 knock sensor 2 circuit low. I've read alot of sights and alot of people have said they have had this problem too, but I haven't had a chance to fix yet. I also have had the same problem I have read in other posts about not being able to get your car started. I turn the key evrything comes on it cranks it sounds like it just about to start but it just won't turn over. I would like to know more about that too. It's a good idea about sights like this, but there's alot of people out there that have alot of complaints that have no idea about these sights. There should be a way to advertise somewhere to get to more people on how they could make complaints on this sight or sights like these and maybe eventually something could be done and we could get some help to get these cars fixed instead of fixing all the same exact problems ourselves.
When jump starting or replacing the battery vehicle would run approximately three miles or less before it stalls completely out. Vehicle had to be towed to a dealer shop to reset all of electrical components to get vehicle to run again . If this occurs in a town or city that does not have a Volkswagen dealer shop, what can one do? asking NHTSA to look into this matter.
When jump starting or replacing battery vehicle would run approximately three miles or less before it stalls compelety out. Vehicle had to be towed to dealers shop to reset all electrical components in order to get vehicle to run again. If this occurs in a town or city that does not have a Volkswagen dealer shop, what can one do? asking NHTSA to look into this matter. Feel free to provide any further information concerning this matter.
Battery problem. I stopped at signal and when I restarted the engine stopped and I was almost rear end. The abs and brake lights came on. The car was towed. Apparently the battery was falling out of the car at 13,000 miles. A few months later I heard a noise and slipping within the transmission. As it turned out, engine coolant had leaked into the transmission and a rebuilt was put in. Within a few weeks after the rebuilt was put in, it was making some noise and it had intermittent lurching. I complained to vw of America and the dealership. They took care of the noise and said they would be unable to help with the lurch problem. I was in an accident a month and a half after getting the rebuilt. I went into a pole sideways. I had an independent transmission specialist test drive it after the car was repaired. He reported an unusually long pause for engagemet. I believe that when I was in a roll forward motion and would put my foot to the gas, it would not engage properly and lurched. The reason it was intermittent , is due to the fact that sometimes when you would be in a rollforward motion it would be in gear and not lurch. If it was not in gear due to the long pause, you would get a lurching movement. My first transmission never had this problem. There is a potential design flaw with this transmission. When I was talking to the service manager at commonwealth, with my first transmission, he had stated they were having problems with the jetta transmissions.
Many problems/failures between 10600 and 19000 miles. Dashboard left turn signal indicator intermittent failure persists for >1 year and devonhills vw refuses to fix the problem because it would be expensive for them (in the mean time, the light is useless since half the time it is on, half off).
Multiple problems with car since purchase.
Defective battery on a 1998 Volkswagen Beetle. The battery was replaced. The battery did not accept charging due to a dead cell. The battery was only 7 1/2 months old.
Battery blew up, causing windows to lock/ door locks not to work. Volkswagen was contacted.
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