On Sunday afternoon I was on a 5 hour drive in my 99.5 1.8Tqm (has 2,750 miles on it). I had just getting off a turnpike ramp and had stopped at the toll both. When the car in front of me drove off I stepped on the gas and let out the clutch and the following occured. My car began to shake, clang (like metal banging against metal) no RPM increase only shakking and banging!! I though I just didn't get on the gas quick enough but I don't think so now. I have only stalled my 5 speed manual once in 2,750 miles. I imediatelly depressed the clutch and tried to give it a little gas. It seemed like forever but I'm sure it only was 2 to 3 seconds and the engine responded. No warning light all gauges in normal operating range. The girl in the toll both asked "Is your car ok". I think the noises were very loud!! Needless to say I was a little embarassed because at the time I though it was my doings but now I'm not so sure. Could my non chipped 1.8T have gone crazy for a few second. All has been perfect since and this was the only occurance. Anyone have any explanations??
Thanks
Roy M 99.5 1.8Tqm (all working well 99.99999% of the time)

Hello , The same thing happend to me but in reverse when I fist got it backing up the driveway and I really don't know what happened I gave it gas and then it sound like the hole car was falling apart...shut it off then started it again everything ok...It could of been by letting the clutch out quick and the AWD system making all that noise because of no speed ...Beets me I have 9K miles on my 99.5 everything else ok

This happened to me once, too. I was backing up a slight hill into a parking space and was on/off the clutch as needed to gently pull into the space. All of a sudden the car started bucking and making lots of bad sounding noises. I pushed the clutch to the ground and it did not seem to do anything. After a few moments everthing was fine (can't remember if the car stalled or not), and it has never happened again since then. This happened when my car was fairly new (16K miles now).

Dave M - '97 1.8tm, sport, sunroof