83 needs help

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--- "Tobias ><" <scirocco16v88@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, I might usually look to see what's going on
> first... but I'm running on 
> too little sleep and this morning my patience meter
> went from 100% to flat 
> out 0 when the 83 decided it didn't want to take me
> to work today.
> 
> Until yesterday haven't had problems. Yesterday,
> take the car to leave, 
> leasurely shift from first to second, going slow ..
> car dies. Restart, go 
> off on my way.
> 
> Today, car again dies as I try to get out of the
> apartment complex while 
> shifting from 1 to 2. Try to start, no go. Motor
> turns on but doesn't start. 
> The longer I let it sit, the more it seems to want
> to start. If I go back 
> this afternoon it'll probably start and run for me
> to move it, but this 
> problem will persist.
> 
> Car is stock everything, and I dunno the maintenance
> history, so what are 
> the first culprits I need to look at - I'm thinking
> electrical?
> 
> There are days when owning only Sciroccos seems like
> a bad idea  :)
> 
> Thanks,T
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When it dies does it still "turn over"?

The first thing I would suspect is a clogged fuel
filter. 



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