Audi just shuts off no warning while driving and won't restart. First time ever, in 11 years

[Vincent Gelinas]

All is well and good but the weird thing is that it started right back up
like nothing happened. I'd check fuel, intake, and ignition. I had a similar
problem on my 90q.
On Aug 13, 2011 2:36 PM, "George Selby" <gselby4x4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 01:29 PM 8/13/2011, you wrote:
>>Here is the sequence of events: One moment car is driving normally
>>at 50 mph, then we hear what sounds like a backfire, at that same
>>moment, car starts to lose power, yellow check engine light goes on,
>>and about 1 second later the tachometer drops to zero, and we coast to a
stop.
>
> That sounds like some sort of ignition failure. When the ignition
> module goes out in my Jeep or Ford truck (they both have the same
> style ignition) they always let out a huge backfire then quit. I had
> a 86 4kcs that would intermittently just stop running while you were
> driving, turned out to be the pickup in the distributor. Fuel
> trouble typically is characterized by some sort of stumbling before
> it quits, while ignition failure is usually sudden.
>
>
> George Selby
>
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