It does not start...now what (200 Turbo)

[Nate Stuart]

Before guessing and replacing random parts... troubleshoot, troubleshoot,
troubleshoot. Start off by seeing the the car has anything to complain
about by pulling any fault codes that may be stored in the ECU. Check out
Scott's fantastic site for how to do this at:
http://www.sjmautotechnik.com/ecuf_MC2.html#fctwo

Then poke through the rest of his site, he's got lots of good troubleshoot
and general info there.

HTH,
-Nate
'89 90tq
www.newtsplace.com/90tq

> Hi fellow listers,
> During all winter my '89 200 FWD turbo has had warm start problems and
> low "cranking" idle, sometimes it took as much as 10 minutes to restart.
> Considering that I have to do all the work on it outdoors, I decided to
> wait for spring... but now the car does not start at all, starter cranks
> and seems OK, but motor does not follow. I'm pretty tight financially,
> so before I call for a towride to the shop, I would like to know if
> there's something I can do on my own, thought maybe wires, rotor , cap
> and sparkplugs may do the trick, but I'm no expert so really don't know
> what to do.
> Thanks a lot
> Cecilio Cerdan
> 1989 200 Turbo w/114000 miles
> Alexandria, KY (not a lot Audis here, not a lot shops that know how to
> deal w/them)
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