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Old 08-25-2012, 02:21 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Dusty - '98 VOLKSWAGEN Beetle TDI
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I would like a electric brake pump, I may end up picking one up from the wreckers, at some point. What i am looking into now is a way to fine tune the kill switch. The bug is not so much in the switch system but the cars ignition.
With my Beetle if it stalls i have to cycle the key a notch down and then back to crank or to on for a bump start.
Also if i crank the motor and it does not start, i have to cycle the key back a notch or it will not engage the starter.

a Stupid quirk that i want to rectify.
Hopefully i can bypass a wire or some such thing, Vag Com might help. I am not 100% sure but suspect the problem is with the security system,possible key recognition. My car came out a year or two before the chip keys were used but the ignition still may want to be appeased. At this point i am going to have to trouble shoot it.
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