Hello again ....
I have a new problem with my daughter's 96 Jetta.
She returned last evening from school and the car sat for 1.5 hours until she tried to start it up again. When she tried, it would start and immediately die - like it would no hold an idle. She tried several times to start it to no avail.
I added some fuel system treatment to the vehicle and tried to start it. WIth a little gas the car would start, the idle would drop and the car would run rather shoddily. After a few minutes the idle would pick back up to where it usually is and the car ran fine.
I replaced the fuel filter also during the troubleshooting stage. I installed the fuel filter with the larger part of the car pointing towards the front as this is the way I found it. There weren't any makings on the fuel filter itself, but the black plastic carrier had an arrow pointing toward the front.
Can anybody offer assistace as to what I should do next?