Hard start & rough idle when cold

[Bill Green]

I just went and checked it again. I inserted my multimeter in the single
line from the sensor to the ECU. When the engine was first started it
fluctuated between .2 and 1.0 for thirty seconds or so. Then it settles down
to fluctuating between .53 and .55, After fully warming up it drops to .52
to .53, If I rev it as you suggest it momentarily drops to 4.9, Actually
replacing the sensor improved overall performance but not the starting
problem. 




-----Original Message-----
From: Huw Powell [mailto:audi at humanspeakers.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 5:25 PM
To: Bill Green; audifans
Subject: Re: Hard start & rough idle when cold

"The O2 sensor is new and reads .5v with very little fluctuation."

Then it's not reading (sorry not get to this earlier, thought of it 
while grocery shopping).  The wire from the ECU itself will read 0.5 
volts.  On a non-managed engine, the OXS will almost certainly read 
almost zero or almost one volt.  Are you sure it's plugged in properly? 
  Did this problem, um, start when you replaced it?

Try reading its output while revving the engine up and down a few times...

-- 
Huw Powell

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