'95 90qs: Cut Out, Hard Starts, Stall

[Grant Lenahan]

At 12:04 PM -0400 8/27/00, Dan Z. Johnson wrote:
>Hello,
>My 1995 Audi 90q (73k miles) has a real problem. It started
>as the occasional stall at idle, then progressed to quick,
>intermittent cut out while driving. Now, at road speeds, the
>engine will sputter rapidly and die altogether, and be
>nearly impossible to restart. Car backfires slightly. After
>letting it cool a bit, I can restart and sometimes run for
>1/2 hour or more with no problems.

My advice?  Start with things that affect mixture:

1.	02 sensor - on your car you should be able to pull codes to a computer
2.	Mixture itself - adjusted on an emissions analyzer
3.	fuel pump and filter, either of which can caus4e intermittent 
fuel starvation
4.	mass flow sensor

Grant
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