[s-cars] Pauls' problem (with car)

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Paul ...  I think Neil is correct, or at least provides the leading likely solution based on past personalexp.
 I had the exact series of experience on a previous Audi. As Neil describes.Cost me mega bucks to buy a new distributor, and THEN I learned about CPS.
Try to start it too soon, and crankcrankcrankcrankcrankcrank  Let the car cool a lot, and the intermittent-firing CPS wakes up an allows the car to run.
As an alternative, you can leave the hood open so that the CT slushstorm from hell, ohmygosh will cool her down real fast.
Posto, ducking for cover as Paul wheels his keyboard in my direction!




 Paul Krasusky <KrasuskyP at FirstInterBank.com> wrote:
Neil wrote:

Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:23:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Neil Swanson
To: s-car list
Subject: [s-cars] Pauls' problem (with car)

HEY ALL,

Me I don't see the FPR as the problem. About all the
FPR can do when it fails is run the car with no
pressure control at all, meaning they run really rich.
He'd know that. The cat would make a big stink and I
think the car would stumble.

The CPS is failing when the car doesn't want to start
but cranks fine. You run an errand, spend 40 minutes
in Home Depot and come out to a car that cranks but
won't run. You call for a ride and when the ride
finally gets there it will run.

Drive the car to work and leave it parked for 8 hours
and you'll never know you have the CPS problem till
Saturday when you go to Home Depot. That is what
happened to my brothers S6. It only happens on the
weekends he told me.

You will get a fault code but probably NOT a check
engine light with a CPS problem.

The only pain replacing it besides cramped quarters is
pulling the t-belt off and on the cam pulley. The
gear must come off to access the CPS.

Paul, look for codes.

SJM site tells how to pull codes with a piece of wire
at the contacts in the fuse box.

Neil





Thanks Neil. Agreed. And good thing you clarified it's a "car" related
problem, as you wouldn't know where to begin otherwise! 8-)

Dumped 'em last night (CT slushstorm from hell, ohmygosh do 255's throw
forward roostertails in front of headlights like a plow! Quite an
interesting drive, more like jetski!).

Cross referencing them now, will post results later when I know what they
are. Interestingly, when dumping (hot start, shut off, repeat), car
"hardstarted", meaning, crankcrankcrankcrank, stumblestumble grudgingly
starrrr...starrr... started. Is that also symptomatic of a fail(ing) CPS?
Or signs of trouble elsewhere?

-P

P.S. Chad Hall, paahleeeeeze email me, tx.
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