{"id":18754,"date":"2013-10-06T21:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T02:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=18754"},"modified":"2013-10-06T21:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T02:38:19","slug":"vw-beetle-covertable-2-litre-05-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2013\/10\/vw-beetle-covertable-2-litre-05-plate","title":{"rendered":"VW Beetle covertable 2 litre 05 plate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you assist please?
\nWe have a VW Beetle convertible 05 plate which we have had for four years. The car has been serviced regularly and has 80k on the clock, doing city and motorway driving.
\nProblems are intermittent but starting to reoccur with some regularity. The VW dealer has had the car on the diagnostic machine a couple of time but they cannot find a fault.
\nProblems:
\n1, Fuel gauge works most of the time and sometime doesn\u2019t work at all
\n2, the boot lid also doesn\u2019t work on occasions\u2019
\n3 Yesterday drove to work, parked up then saw a better parking space tried to start the car but it wouldn\u2019t start. Eventually it stared and couldn\u2019t get ant revs. Parked the car and when locking the car the windows wouldn\u2019t fully close. Went to work and on returning to the car it started straight away and run without problem.<\/p>\n

Do you have any ideas what\u2019s wrong? The VW dealer suggested a new instrument panel.<\/p>\n

Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you assist please? We have a VW Beetle convertible 05 plate which we have had for four years. The car has been serviced regularly and has 80k on the clock, doing city and motorway driving. Problems are intermittent but starting to reoccur with some regularity. 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