Hall sender diagnosis & repair note - MC engine

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So is this part # generic across all MC distributors, such as my 1B 10v
turbo?
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Sam Clarkson
1990 200 TQA.
Original post:
> Message: 4
> From: "DeWitt Harrison" <Six-Rs at attbi.com>
> To: "Quattro List" <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: Hall sender diagnosis & repair note - MC engine
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:09:36 -0600
>
> Problem 1: intermittent hesitant-start to no-start when warm.
> Episodes can be separated by hours, weeks or months.
>
> Troubleshooting: Pulled code 2113 (= Hall sender) during
> warm, no start condition. (Hall sender tested good _statically_
> and engine started ok, well a bit hesitantly actually, after
> cool down.)
>
> Problem 2: Hall sender is a non-repairable part of the distributor
> which lists at $440. (Audi p/n 035 905 206 AF)
>
> Solution: Rod @ The Parts Connection. Bosch p/n 0 237 522 011.
> Cost $239. As a bonus, a new cap and rotor is included in the p/n.
> The sealing o-ring is there too but not the $0.01 paper gasket.
>
> Result: Snappy starts. Hits the first time every time. Until now, I
> would have said the Hall sender, being a solid state device, can
> be either bad or good or intermittently bad or good (due to some
> internal continuity issue) but never sorta bad or sorta good.
> Now I think "lazy Hall sender" can be added to the list of 101
> reasons why an MC engine may start but poorly.
>
> DeWitt Harrison
> 88 5kcstq