Hi. Haven't been in the group for a few years since I got rid of my old A2 Jetta. But I'm back. My daughter just bought a used 1998 New Beetle.
Car runs like a top, but a couple of afternoons ago, she reported a noise that came and went that sounded like scraping something with a power drill.
Not so coincidentally, the air conditioner has quit working. The compressor is not engaging. I wasn't sure whether it was a low- pressure opening of the pressure switch, or a failure of the clutch, or something more serious with the compressor itself.
Working without the benefit of a Bentley, I took connector off the pressure switch and was dismayed to find four contacts. I bridged them around and got the fans to turn on, but never heard a peep out of the compressor clutch. Don't know if I didn't bridge the right two contacts or if I found a bad clutch.
Anyway, thought I'd post in case this sounded like a familiar failure scenario for the NB. Thanks for any advice you can offer.
And if worse comes to worse, is Germanautoparts.com still a good online source?
Thanks, Marcus