97 A4 1.8tq problem

[Ti Kan]

HRDSTRT at aol.com writes:
> On start up I drove my car(97 A4 1.8tq) and the engine light tripped briefly 
> less than a second. The car stumbled at that time. It has happened everytime 
> the car has be run since. One time it happened several times and the oil 
> display came up briefly with it.
> Car has 81K on the odometer. APR chip and exhaust. No prior engine ailments 
> in my ownership of the car(since 49k). 
> 
> Barrowed an OBD II scanner at work the generic scan showed now engine faults.

A generic OBDII scanner probably won't show anything interesting.
You should use a VW/Audi-specific scanner (like VAG-COM, Baum VDSPro or
the real VAG 1551/1552) to look for stored faults in the engine controller.

-Ti
01 S4 2.7 biturbo quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
80 4000 2.0
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