87.5 dying slowly help

[edkellock at juno.com]

Check your battery for excessive corrosion.  Right behind and below it is
where the main wiring harness ducks into the cabin.

I had a broken battery post on my NG CGT and didn't figure this out until
my car started to exhibit somewhat similar behavior.  I went around and
around thinking ignition and finally gave up and took it to a dealer.
They just happened to stumble on this when they were taking the glove box
out to get at the ecu.  Fortunately they had the car idling and when they
moved stuff around, the engine died.  They found that the wiring harness
was badly eaten up by the battery acid.  Some poor guy spent several
hours upside down under the dash rewiring stuff.  A small bonus to this
was that my car came back with every dash illumination bulb working since
they tested everything to make sure of Job 1. ;-)

That was $400 I did not sweat over, literally or figuratively.  Many
thanks to Central VW/Audi in Dallas.

Ed
Colorado Springs

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:57:51 -0800 (PST) MM <marknyc28 at yahoo.com> writes:
> Perhaps with all the expertise on this list, you guys
> could help me with my problem..
> Car is a 2.3 NG Coupe GT.
> Car runs fine acutally perfect when it runs...
> Today it died in an intersection (3 times now)No
> warning, no misfires, just nothing.  Starting is very
> hard after, but always eventually starts and runs fine
> again, sometimes for days, sometimes for 30 secs
> I disconnected the ECU and sprayed the contacts with
> electrical cleaner...the fuel pump is new, caps rotor
> and plugs are 1 year old, fresh gas.
> Im thinking its ignition related, until today when it
> died....it remained running, but what sounded like on
> ONE cylinder..It actually sounded like it was
> "dieseling" but did this for 30sec to a minute. Lots
> of shaking, then a "click" and boom, its running fine
> again...
> Bad ground somewhere perhaps??? Fuel relay???
> Im at a loss, and coming back from class it wouldnt
> staart again...so there it stays until i find some
> area to narrow it down too....
> ANY SUGGESTIONS??
> Anything would be appreciate, cause im a pedestrian
> until its fixed...
> thanks
> Mark
>
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