Need your help

Need your help.
Girlfriend has a 2000 Jetta III.
It has an issue where of we start the car, drive for a any amount of time, turn it off, then try to start the car within half an hour, it won't start.
It is remedied by popping the hood, opening the coolant reservoir which depressurizes, closing the reservoir, and then the car will start just fine.
It usually works but every now and then it won't start for like an hour.
We've replaced the reservoir, the hoses, almost everything related to temperature, yet it still persists.

Besides her car being an abominable piece of shit, what the fuck could the issue be?

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Has your bimbo recently overheated it? What does the oil look like? Does the exhaust smell sweet or has a lot of water vapor?

How recently was the ignition changed on it? How old is the fuel pump?

>Has your bimbo recently overheated it?
No
>What does the oil look like?
Recently changed, looked fine before
>Does the exhaust smell sweet or has a lot of water vapor?
Not that we are aware of.
>How recently was the ignition changed on it? How old is the fuel pump?
Ignition has never been changed.
Fuel pump was changed three years ago

Now that I'm thinking about it we did find a little bit of oil on one of the spark plugs once, and there was a bit of water in the oil a while back. But it wasn't a constant, both occured like twice ever and haven't been a problem since. We check pretty frequently for it.

You need to get rid of it. Don't try diagnosing this issue, just fucking get rid of it.

There was a girl who had your exact car and she would call me every two weeks with something else broken. She finally took my advice and got rid of it.

I agree completely. We would like to but can't afford anything else right now. It's her only vehicle and she commutes in it daily. I had another Jetta as well and it had nothing but fucking issues

Oil leaking onto the spark plugs will cause fouling of both the spark plug and ignition coil if it has individual coil packs.

I doubt you have a distributor cap and rotor, but if you have one of those, when the car heats up it will cause problems.

Also just to clarify, the car is turn over right, just not firing?

Daily reminder not to buy German.

Sounds like an issue just like on 90s hondas. The problem on vintage hondas though is related to the main fuel pump relay. Over time, the solder joints on the relay board become weakened due to expansion and contraction due to temperature and cause the non-start issue. Dunno about VWs though but definitely fits the same order of events.

>Jetta
>German

Nice bait