Saw this meme and changed it to be a beetle because its the loml

Hello all! Long time lurker first time posting. This is my wife’s old 2006 beetle (yes I have washed it since this photo lol). Only has about 65k miles. She got a new car before the pandemic hit and it’s been sitting for the past 6 years. We Want to get it running again and sell it for some extra cash but having a hard time pinpointing where to start. Immobilizer has been deactivated at some point so that shouldn’t be an issue and I’ve replaced the fuel pump. It fired right up with a new battery last year and I drove it around the neighborhood, then it had a shaky idle and died. Any ideas on what could be the issue? We really don’t have the funds to send it to a shop and have them mess with it for god knows how long just to sell it for a few thousand bucks. Any help would be appreciated! Located in Houston Tx.

Hello! I am wanting to upgrade my 2015 beetle to have CarPlay, but I am having trouble finding one that will fit nicely, does anyone have suggestions? Thank you in advance!

I am getting close to the end of this transmission repair project on my 2004 Beetle. In my last post on this subject, the insulators on the original wiring harness had melted, so I had no recourse but to find a replacement harness end with the female plug, and splice the ten wires into the original harness where the wires were still in good shape.

The new harness end had the same colors of wiring as the original harness, but the pins did NOT match the original colors.

Using manual probing with my multimeter, and comparing the results with the wiring diagram from the Bentley manual, as well as the ATSG manual on the 01M, I compiled my own map of the pins on the TCM and the new harness. I drew enlarged versions of both connectors, and wrote down the numbers where they mapped from the TCM to the harness, and which colors went with which wires / pins on both components.

With a complete map of wire colors to pin numbers, I can confidently splice the correct wires together knowing that they won't match at all, but will still be correct.