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

[Marc Boucher]

what do you mean 'started right back up' ?  Mine shut off instantly and has 
not started or even near-stared since.

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From: "Vincent Gelinas" <vrgelinas at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 2:50 PM
To: "George Selby" <gselby4x4 at earthlink.net>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: Audi just shuts off no warning while driving and won't 
restart.First time ever, in 11 years

> 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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