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

[Vincent Gelinas]

Whoops... my fault. I misread :)

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On Aug 13, 2011 3:09 PM, "Marc Boucher" <mboucher70 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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