Looking for an explanation

[Robert Myers]

I had an older Audi with essentially identical symptoms.  It finally 
turned out to be a failing fuel pump relay socket.  The pins of the 
FP relay were not in their receptacles deeply enough to make positive 
contact all the time.  The car side connection for the FP relay 
socket had apparently never been fully seated from the factory and it 
had, over the years, vibrated loose far enough to cause intermittent 
contact with the mating relay pins.  The engine would simply stall 
from time to time.  Now talk about a frustrating diagnosis to finally 
discover the actual problem.  Wow.

Bob


At 11:30 PM 1/31/2010, Huw Powell wrote:
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> > Because I had no helpers to push the car into the garage, I decided
> > to use the starter.  So I put the car into second gear, released the
> > clutch alone and turned the key:  the car rolled nicely into the
> > garage, and A MIRACLE HAPPENED.  IT STARTED!  I kept it running for a
> > few minutes, turned it off, then on again:  fuel pump is buzzing and
> > car starts as if nothing ever happened.
>
>At least you didn't drive it through the back wall of the garage.
>
>Old car, tired wiring, needs TLC on connections?
>
>
>--
>Huw Powell
>
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