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Open the hood and look down beside the battery youll see a black lever.Pull the lever up it may take some patience but it will release,the headlight assembly will slide out of the front of the vehicle.Once you take the assembly out on the backside youll see a metal clip holding the bulb in place.Just depress the clip and it will release,Simply just reverse the procedure for installation.
Unfortunately I am aware of no pictures or diagrams. There are two connections, a low pressure and a high pressure connection. The high pressure connection is found between the engine and the firewall. The low pressure connection is in front of the engine along the inside lip of the hood closure. As you open your hood, it's located just in front of your lefty knee. The connection is on an aluminum tubing, and mine has a black screw cap on it. Not sure if the cap varies in colors, or whether your may have been removed. The connecting hose from your freon refigerant H134a will ONLY fit onto the low pressure connection. The charge is just a bit more than 2 pounds of freon. In a 2001 you may need to add more than i can if the car has never been recharged, but start with one can and see how it goes. You may also want to add a freon with a sealant just in case you have a small leak. One can is approximately 13 ounces.
There is a slow drian being placed on the battery from one of the VW accessories installed on your bug. I had a very similar problem with my daughter's 1998 Beetle, and the cause was traced back to the hood latch. There's an electrical connection to the hood latch, and when the connection fails it places a slow drain on the battery. Although I'm not fully certain, I beleive the connection is part of the circuit that allows the security system to sense that the doors, hood and trunk are all closed.
I also had a problem with the electrical trunk release actuator, and had to have it replaced once. The remote key fob signals a the electrical actuator to open the trunk lid when the trunk release button on the key fob is pushed. If your trunk release operated normally, you probably do not have an electrical problem by your trunk.
About 60 percent certain you problem is located in your hood release circuit. An experience car nechanic should be able to test this circuit using a hand held electrical meter before it is removed and replaced.
Good luck. My daughter's bug has been acting normally ever since the latch was replaced about 2-3 years ago.
I had a very similar problem on my daughter's VW New Beetle. The garage checked the electrical system, installed a new battery, and within days the battery was dead once again. After quite a bit of hunting and tweeking the problem was isolated to an electrical connection to the hood release latch. The electrical connection was shorting out, and the battery was being drained. I replaced the item that was connected to the hood latch, and the problem never happened again. The garage wasn't sophisticated enough to find a "small electrical drain" but the VW dealer was.
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