Ok so my girls 2001 Cabrio with is automatic had been having an intermittant problem. Every so oftem when she slows the car down the car slows down abruptly as if someone slammed on the brakes, but she is putting steady even ressure on the brakes. Then when she attempts to give it gas the car is sluggish and will not really acclerorate. She then pulls the car over and comes to a comlete stop. After doing so she can then accelorate find as if it never happend. Then it will not happen again for a few weeks. I believe it to be a tranny problem, my mechanic thinks it may be the ecu and the volkwagon dealorship says there is no codes coming up and because it is an intermittant problem they can not diagnose it unless it happens while it is there. Has this hapend to anyone else and if so what was the cause / solution. Thanks.

 

kinda got thesame prob.here on my 01 cabrio idles funny at a slow down to a stop. On the go runs fine. When accelerating from stop it kinda chugs funny. I have 4 new plugs and a throttle body comin from jersey to me in michigan. I think that might be it if not i think we may have fuel inj. probs (i hope not). I'll put parts on this and let u know. peace on the outtie

 

ok it's sunday and i have put the new magnecor spark plug wire set and new bosch plugs in today. The throttle body went on as well .....what a fun day of struggle grrrrrrrrrrr. Just came back from a test drive on the highway and how sweet it is. No more chuggin here in any of my gears and or in the acceleration. Idle is a lil funny but i think i want to replace the timing belt to cover all bases and have the idle tweaked to match new throttle body. hope this was some help. hit me up if ya got any other ?'s.

 

Had Toyota that did something along the same line. It turned out
to be the brake mastercyl, not releasing all the way, but after it
sat a minute then it would go again.