A6 starting problem

[Grant Lenahan]

I suspect one of two problems:

1. intermittent spark due to balsted ignition switch
2. backing the car out and shutting down cold resulted in rich  
mixture flooding motor, which you had to crank away to clear out

best of luck.

Grant
On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:41 PM, victor norman wrote:

> Had the following problem with my wife's 1999 A6 the other day:
>
> Backed the car out of the garage, replaced the snow tires with  
> summer tires, drove the car back into the garage.
>
> The next day my wife could not start the car. The exact same thing  
> happened with this car a couple of years ago. Advice I received  
> then was to floor the throttle and crank the bejesus out of the  
> car. Then and now the car finally and reluctantly staggered back to  
> life  using this approach. (The battery wasn't up to the task by  
> itself, needed a little help from my Sears battery charger/ 
> starter). Had to crank the engine so long I had visions of the  
> starter bursting into flames.
>
> Does anyone know exactly what is going on here? It's not a question  
> of wet plugs - pulled the plugs, they were certainly wet, but  
> replacing them with new plugs did not help. I assume that the  
> engine ECU (?) is somehow objecting to me running the car twice for  
> just a few seconds and preventing a normal start - eg cold start  
> mode turned off? Is there a less abusive way to start the car than  
> the above approach? The car runs just fine other than this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Vic Norman
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