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Try to make your throttle cable tighter on the throttle body don't tighten it to much. My car does this when it's cold the cable has a plastic slip tube on the throttle cable on my 96 and that keeps lipping and then my idle drops all the way off usually stops at 900 rpm.

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Q: My 99' Jetta seems to cut off and turn off when i am idling or take my foot off the gas?
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