VW New Beetle

A 2003 Volkswagen New Beetle Convertible, with 50,000 miles, is worth approximately $4,160. The value will vary based on mileage and condition.

Here's a site that will explain everything you need to know about airbag lights and resetting the system. http://www.airbagsolutions.com/ This website gives you the procedure for diagnosing and resetting airbag lights. See if your car is listed here. http://www.airbagsolutions.com/vehicles_list.aspx On most vehicles, the airbag light should come on for @6 seconds, and then go off if the system is working properly. If there is a fault or a problem in the system, the light will remain illuminated, or flash continuously. If the airbag light does not work properly, some vehicles have an audible tone that sounds indicating a problem with the airbag light system. When the light is on (or the tone is sounding), the airbag will NOT deploy, even in an accident. The flashing light on your car is telling the answer you need. On some vehicles, the light is flashing a two digit code. Once you know the code, you can most likely repair it yourself. There are fairly easy procedures that most people are capable of repairing. Airbagsolutions.com has the fault code charts to tell you what is wrong and how to fix it!

Some vehicle manufacturers accommodate systems without a scanner (like Toyota, Lexus, Nissan, Infinity, Honda, Acura, Ford, Lincoln, Mazda & Mercury) and some require a scan tool.

Not enough information. Will the car shift gears with the engine off? Is the gear shifter stuck in one particular gear?

Go to "Bobwobby's bing bang bo DIY shop" and ask the staff (Mr.Mend or Mr Alien) to fix it. They mend spoons too!!! Find your soulmate and get him to fix your stupid car you idiot!!!

The distributor drive is a little shaft with a gear on the end of it that meshes with a gear on the crankshaft.

Your first task is to be sure there's not one in there already. Stick your distributor in the hole where it goes, shove it in as far as it will go, and turn the rotor. If it meshes with something in there, you've got a distributor drive. Tighten the distributor clamp after you static-time the engine, and be happy.

If you DON'T have one...

remove the right-side valve cover. Turn the engine over with a wrench until number 1 cylinder (the one to the front of the car) is in firing position--both valves closed.

Get a distributor drive, grease it up (it probably won't go in unless you do), and put it in the hole where it goes. Don't stick it in all the way. Put a rotor in your distributor, mesh the end of the distributor shaft with the distributor driveshaft--it only fits one way--and turn the rotor until the long, narrow end, which is where the fire comes from, is pointing at you. Now push the distributor down until it stops.

If you have lived a clean life, the teeth on the distributor drive meshed with the teeth on the crank, and the distributor bottomed out like it was supposed to. No one gets that lucky, so just move the rotor back and forth a little and it will drop right in.

If it won't shift out of park sometimes or all the time it probably needs a new brake light switch.

The IAT sensor on a 1999 VV Bug is located between the air filter and the throttle body. It is part of the mass air flow sensor.

There is a female hexagonal plug on the side of the transaxle that needs to be removed to fill the thing with oil. If you don't see the fill plug it may be full of mud or dirt, after all that car is 48 years old!

Get that small tool from a Mac tools salesman or Snap On. If I remember, the drain plug is a standard type metric plug that you take out with a metric socket.

Good Luck!

J T

PS: Fill the transaxle until the oil runs back out the fill plug, let it stop then replace the plug.

the headlight assembly needs to come out in order to replace the bulb.

disconect or cut the alarm speaker wire

the fuel pump is behind the rear passenger wheel

Try E-bay. I got a brand new 2003 Ford Expedition manual there. A Volkswagen dealer can get you one.

no. 68 was still swing axle rear end. 69 has IRS. the only way you could use it if you took the side plates off both cars and took the differentials out and swapped diffs and side plates, but its more work than its worth, just get a used swing axle from a junk yard. I think any swing axle tranny will work from 61 or 62 up to 68. you just have to use your axles from th 68 tranny. up to 66 were short axles and short splines, 67 long axles short splines, 68 long axles long splines.

bottom of the left side of the frame by the shifter kinda.

You think with yer dipstick Jimmy!

Top speed for most cars is limited at 155 mph. Depending on options, market, and year, the car can come de-limited from the factory. 175 mph is possible on the road. Gearing for the SLK 55 allows up to 198 MPH.

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I would try to get some technical diagram of the vehicle door. Then, as you understand the layout of the components within the door, the part that you can not not see, you should try to put the window on track. This can be done by a help of another person. Think of it this way, you need to fish the window on the track but you can not see the track - to do this, you need to set the track half way and then work the window with both hands onto the track. How do you know where the track is when you power the window up/down - I don't know. However, I ended up taking the car door apart to get inside and look at the window as I reseated onto the track. You may need to do the same or pay a technician 300.00 to do it for you.

About 82mph stock! Very trustworthy ATV I would recommend.

check the vacuum, or if its been torn into before then see if the front drive shaft is in it. it could also be electrical, because i think that has an electric transfer shifter.

To add water to the radiator on a new beetle, first remove the lower radiator hose. Then add water to the coolant reservoir.

Here is where I found it

http://www.newbeetle.org/forums/questions-issues-concerns-problems-new-beetle/31634-fuse-box-translation-card.html#post527675

# If the vehicle is 1972 model with a seat belt warning buzzer, unplug the electrical connector. # Raise the adjustment lever and slide the seat forward until its runner contacts the leaf-spring stop. # Depress the leaf-spring stop with a screw driver, raise the adjustment lever and slide the seat forward about 1 1/2 inches. # Reach under the seat and detach the tension spring. # Slide the seat forward, lift it off the tracks and remove it. # To install the seat, grasping it with the backrest folded forward for better balance, place it in position over the tracks and slip the inner runner into its track. Pull the seat toward you slightly and insert the outer runner into its track. # Raise the adjusting lever, slide the seat back and reconnect the tension spring. # Plug in the electrical connector for the seat belt warning buzzer, if equipped.

I am not sure what you mean by 'old school' but you can do this several ways...

1) Weld in one of the adjusters that you can buy.

2) Fit 'drop spindles'

3) Cut and Turn : you cut the middle out of the tube turn it a little, then weld it back in (and hope you got it right )

4) Take springs out until it sags so much it looks lowered.

All of these probably need you to hacksaw an inch or more off the bumpstop rubbers. Unless you have a good NHS dentist.

All these will drop your beetle.

4 will also break your Beetle as soon as you hit a pot hole and the bump-stops give way. On a buggy you need to soften the front until it rides properly but on a Beetle or Baja you are just weakening it so much it will be dangerous.

3 Will work fine, but you need to be very clever about how much you turn before welding it back in. Or you need to cut it out and weld it back several times until you are happy with it.

2 Is very expensive, unless your welder drives a porche and charges silly money.

1 is the way to go. Just as much hassle as in 3, but for less than what you'd pay for 4 gallons of petrol you get to be able to adjust it afterwards. If you are cutting and welding beams have a look at altering the length of them to suit different alloys/tyre widths inside your wings?

You need to fiddle around, just beneath the brake pedal in the driver's cabin, and you'll locate it.......Small whitish plastic object, about the size of an inhaler.