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Hey Dandd, Thank you for your help. I took the car to an expert on VW and he told me that it was probably the "after market radio" he did noticed that the oil was low and he pour some and after that we took the car to the highway and raced it there.
We then parked the car for 15 minutes and when I started the car again both lights were gone!!! What do you think of this whole thing?

hey!Dandd?how are you?your profile interest me so much and i would like to exchange some knowledge if possible and by the way if you have a ship snap-on for sell to abble me to add on my collection of scan tools.thanks a lot appreciate your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i would like to know too if you have MB star or Compact 3 for Mercedes Benz?.....

i recently bought a used new beetle, 2001, same problem and it came with a 'new radio'...will just disconnecting the radio resolve the issue and allow the 'interfered with networking' to go about its business?

I am not sure how invasive the new radio is to your CAN or computer bus system. You could try disconnecting it and see if it helps, if not, then go to a savvy VW shop and have them repair it. Hope that this helps.

I have a 2001 VW Beetle (Turbo), but it does not have a after market radio. It has the original one it came with. The EPC light came on & I had a loss of power as well. I was able to drive it, but it had a hard time ever getting to 40 mph, and it would speed up so slowly that it takes a long stretch of road to even hit 20 mph. This is the second time the light had come on, but the first time, it drove normally. Do I need to take it to a shop?

If your EPC light is coming on, then yes have the computers scanned. The EPC light is not always triggered by an after market radio, the EPC system ( see above ) sometimes will malfunction on its own. This system is still relatively new in smaller, less expensive cars ( been in 7 series BMW 12 cyl since the late 80s ) for about 10 years, maybe less.

dandd

i just got stranded on the side of the Interstate today for 30 minutes because my beetles epc light came on and it was like my car shut down. It slowed to a roll and I finally had to pull over. I let it sit and when I tried to drive after it chugged and wouldn't go over 35 mph. Then it would all of a sudden race forward to like 60 in a few secs and when i would shift it would die again. Worst car ever wouldn't recommend anyone to buy one!!!

Go check out http://volkswagen-polo-highline.blogspot.com , so many people seem to have this EPC problem. They seem to have a solution.