[s-cars] Re: Ignition Problem

[Evan Desjardins]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your suggestions as to what this problem could be so far. 
Several of you have suggested fuel system cleaner, which I have tried,
as well as replacing the fuel pressure regulator, which I have also
replaced with no luck.  I was talking to my brother-in-law today and
he suggested I rip out the back seat and see if there was any water in
there.  His words of wisdom were:  "Any whacked out Audi problem I've
seen that I couldn't figure out has always been water in the computer
somewhere."  Interesting.

Lo and behold, there WAS some water under my back seat.  Just to be
safe, I pulled out the ECU from the front passenger side and
everything looked nice and dry in there.  However, the rear driver's
quarter seems to be having some drainage problems.  There's water
soaking my rear back seat, under the seat (not a lot, but perhaps
enough to cause a problem?) and also water pooling in the rear trunk
well under the liner - not where the wheel is, all the way over by
where the tail-lights are.

So the question is two-fold...  

1) Could this be the cause of my intermittent start problem?  

B) How the hell do I fix the water leaking into my car?  I'm guessing
that the drain is just clogged or something and it's overflowing and
leaking out, but I can't really see with the sunroof open how to get
in there and clean it.

Thanks, things just keep getting crazier and crazier!

-Evan
'95 //S(oaked)6

On 4/7/05, Evan Desjardins <evan.desjardins at gmail.com> wrote:
> S-Folk,
> 
> I've been having a problem with my car starting as of late, and I
> wanted to query the collective wisdom of The All Knowing List.  Here
> are the symptoms:
> 
> Initially the car would crank and crank and crank and would not start.
>  Plenty of power, turning over fine, just wouldn't fire.  Had it towed
> to a local shop, they said it was the plugs and swapped them out.  Car
> would then start, but not consistently and usually not without several
> cranks.  I was able to drive it to a specialty Audi/VW performance
> shop in the area that was able to get it to start pretty regularly,
> and then suddenly exhibit the same symptoms.
> 
> Here are the codes that the VAG-COM is pulling from it:
> 
> 65535 - Internal control module memory error - intermittent.
> 
> 00513 - Engine speed sensor G28 - no signal.