Re: Jetta Speech Impediment

["Khan M. Klatt" <kmk@pacificrim.net>]

At 11:27 PM -0500 2/16/98, AllisonFeldhusen wrote:

Could also be spark plugs or a very closely related part...

I'm not an engineer by any means, but this could be it.

- -K

>I had almost the exact same problem with my '95.  It turned out to be two
>bad wires and a bad ignition  coil.  It took the dealer several tries to
>find it ( the usual can not recreate problem) till I had them spray a light
>mist over the open engine compartment and watch the electrical storm.
>
> -al
>
>At 08:46 PM 2/16/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>OK, here's a bothersome problem... my Jetta stutters!
>>Car: '94 GLX w/87,000 miles.
>>Maintenence: Regular and Loving.
>>Problem: Upon acceleration, it seems as if a cylinder or two is missing.
>>Power is lacking, but it never comes too close to stalling. This happens
>>whether I'm starting from a dead stop or giving it a little more juice on
>>the freeway. When I'm driving steadily, at any speed, it doesn't stutter,
>>but may miss a beat once in a while. It first happened a half-tank after
>>filling up somewhere in Utah, and stopped for a few hundred miles when I
>>dumped a bunch of injector cleaner and some more gas in. Whenever it would
>>recur for the next 1500 miles, I dumped more stuff in. Injector cleaner,
>>44K, Fuel treatment, tomato juice, basically anything I could lay hands on,
>>except actual alcohol. It seems to happen in damp weather. It hadn't
>>occurred for about 300 miles or so, so I thought, "Hey, bad gas, and I
>>finally burned it off." Then it happened again today.
>>I've got just under 1000 miles left on my aftermarket warranty.
>>Of course.
>>So, has anyone out there seen this? I'm thinking in terms of electrical
>>problem, but then again, the disappearance of the problem when proper
>>chemicals are applied (in lethal doses) would seem to suggest gas problems,
>>but then again, maybe the wires dry out when I stop to add the Stuff...
>>Help!!
>>
>>