Check your fuel pump output -- I had an Audi Fox that exhibited similar symptoms (although it usually quit completely most of the time) when the fuel pump was going out. Worked fine until I got to Tulsa on a long trip -- croaked on the freeway in rush hour traffic in a construction zone. When it (and we) cooled off, it was fine.

Certainly sounds like a fuel problem.

Peter

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1972 220D ?? miles
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