Willie,

Your symptoms exactly match the symptoms for the AFM problem/fix.    It
usually only manifests after some period of highway driving (relatively
constant speed) and is cured (or perhaps postponed by) the capacitor fix or
the VW replacement harness.

Dave

At 10:21 AM 3/7/99 -0800, Willie T. Lafrades wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I recently took a 180 mile trip and exhibited the following problem.  About
>an hour into the trip the van began to stumble as if it were running out of
>gas.  This would continue for several miles then mysteriously disappear.
>This continued all the way home so I went straight to the VW dealer.  They
>said that the symptoms sound like a FI problem but since it is intermittent
>I should leave it with them for several days which to me sounded like $$$!
>I have read much about the AFM capacitor fix, but what type of symptoms does
>this mod fix and will it help my situation?  If it is possibly the FI system
>what test can I do to verify that this is the case?  All suggestions
>welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>Willie
>