A4 engine "pause"

[Douglas Frank]

"Kevin Schwab" <kevin at cinesite.com>> said:
>
> Over the weekend, I experienced the problem where you are driving 
> normally, the engine stops for a split second, then starts back up
> like nothing ever happened.
> In my peripheral vision, I could see the check engine light come on
> and turn off again.
>
> I remember some listers having this problem a while back.  What ever
> became of it?  Did anyone have the codes dumped?  If so, what was it?

Precisely the same thing happened to me last summer.  I forgot to
tell them about  it at the oil change, so never had any codes
pulled.  It hasn't happened since.  Were you using the cruise
control at the time?  (I was.)

One lister suggested a heavy set of keys dangling from the
ignition switch might damage the switch, but that wasn't my
problem.

> Otherwise happy,

yep!

> 99/A4/2.8/Q

Oh ho, more interesting now.  Mine's a '98 1.8tq

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