[s-cars] Engine Trouble..

[Jan Nielsen]

Forgot to say that its a 1997 S6 for those of you that didn't know that=)

Jan
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From: "Jan Nielsen" <audis8 at online.no>
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Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 9:18 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Engine Trouble..


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Hi!

Just got home from a weekend with track racing and stuff(i could'n run cause
my pro.shaft is still not aligned)
Earlier today the car misfired while is was parking it. and then it started
running on 3 or 4 cyllinders only... had big trouble getting it started but
it started after a while and there was still a few cyllinders not
firering... so i revd it up to 4000 rpm and kept it there for a while and
then it was all good again so i shut of the engine and left the car.. so 4
hours later i was going for a drive and started the car... sheeesh.. the
where really loud engie sounds.. almost sounded like a valve was hit or not
having any oil in it.. i turned the ignition off again... and tried again..
same noices.. the car started but was really hard to rev up... the sound
dissapeared the moment the car started. so i just let idle for a while and
after a few minustes it ran well again no misfirering at all... so me and my
gf got in the car to drive home.. it misfired a few times in the start, but
ran very well all the 120 km we had to drive.. it maybe one or 2
misfirerings.. theres is no power loss and the engine sounds great.. i ran
it hard to se if it misfired several times.. but never misfired during
acceleration... if i am cruising and it starts msfirering it stops if i
floor it....

The car has never ever had a misfire since i bought it, so i find it strange
that suddenly started doing this today..

Anyone have some advice??

i was just down starting it again now after it has been parked for 3 hours..
there was a metallic sound and it ran like a bucket of crap at first.. but
suddenly it rund well..

Could it be the spark plugs??

Appreciate any help.

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