Idle and Acceleration issues

[David.Ullrich at ferguson.com]

I had those EXACT same symptoms on my CGT about a  month ago. Turned out to be a combination of two things:

1. Loose spark plug. Seems pretty common on my car. Even when properly  torqued down, they seem to vibrate loose over time. Check yours.
2. Hall Sensor: Mine had actually pulled out of the distributor partly. Also check for loose connections on the Hall Sensor.

Dave

Too Many Toys:
2002 VW Jetta GLS 1.8T Tiptronic
1993 RX-7 R1
1987.5 Audi Coupe GT "Special Build" 2.3 - Anthracite Black
1985 Chevy Impala Interceptor
Former:
1981 Audi 4000 5+5
1982 Audi Coupe
1988 Audi 90 Quattro
1998 VW Passat GLS 1.8T



-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Kaupp [mailto:bkaupp at ugconnection.com]
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:54 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Idle and Acceleration issues


So... I was driving down Scotts Valley Drive yesterday when suddenly my
4kq started to lurch. At this point, I thinks to myself, I thinks "Self,
that ain't right". Then at the next stop light, it nearly dies and
doesn't respond to any throttle commands. Finally, after flooring it for
a coupla seconds, it picks itself up out of the gutter and very roughly
starts its foreward movement again. I go through the gears just fine,
but every time I change anything about the throttle, it bucked like mad.
I limped into a parking lot, shut it off, start it up after checking for
obvious issues under the hood, and it's just fine. Then on Highway 9 it
did it again today at 65 mph. So what's wrong with my car? Has this ever
happened to anybody? I seem to remember something similar in my old BMW
535is, but I don't remember what was wrong.

TIA,
Ben Kaupp
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