A4 back on the road

[Paul Heneghan]

I don't understand how a particle could migrate from one cylinder to
another.  Can anyone explain?

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Phil Payne
> Sent: 21 November 2003 22:53
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: A4 back on the road
>
>
> > Have the car flatbedded to the local Bosch Service Center, find out that
> > the spark plug in cylinder 1 had disintegrated, electrode shot into the
> > cylinder, traveled from cylinder 1 to 2 to 3 to 4, found the electrode
> > in
> > cylinder 4. Plug was loose in cylinder 1, for whatever reason, maybe
> > that
> > started this whole process.
>
> I've seen this four times - twice on ur-quattros, once on an
> ur-S4 and once on an MC.
>
> Never found the cause.