With a car that old I'll bet it's the crank shaft position sensor gone bad. Happened to my wife's car. One morning on the way to work it just shut down. Had plenty of electrical power but crank as she might, it never started. She called me and wanted me to come get her but she tried one more time and it started. Sometimes they'll work when they cool back down, and it did. Told her to come home and I'd drive her to work.

When I got home the car started fine and there were no codes. But I decided to drive it to Autozone to see if they could tell me something. Nope! No codes stored. I later learned that a fault had to occur three times before the computer would consider it a fault and code out.

I drove to another auto parts store just to see what they'd say, and again, no codes. Pulling out the engine stalled out. But it started right back up. Before I got out the driveway it stalled again. THIS time there WAS a code. Rolled it back to the parking space and checked it again. "Crank Shaft Position sensor fault".

So I towed the car home, bought a new CSP and installed it. Not an easy job by the way. The car started right up and has been running fine ever since.

Y'know, those things don't last forever.

Finally, let me say this: FULLY DIAGNOSE THE PROBLEM BEFORE YOU START THROWING MONEY AWAY TRYING TO GUESS AT WHAT'S WRONG.

Hope this helps.

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I have a 2000 VW Jetta VR6. I went to start it one morning but it wouldn't start for some reason. It made the starting noise a car makes right before it starts but the engine just wouldn't start. I hooked it up to a montero sport and the car still wouldn't start. I want to roll it down a hill and pull the clutch out but I'm scared it still won't start and now I'm stuck with a broke down car at the bottom of a hill. In other words I'll be screwed. Can anyone help me please I really need my car.

Start with the two main components of a running engine: fuel and spark. If you don't know what this means or how to check them then you should get a mechanic involved.

Any one of thousands of possibilities with that information.