[s-cars] My car died - HELP!

[Gabriel Caldwell]

That depends on what year you have.  Very early '92s (like mine) have
the CPS at the back of the head driven the cam shaft (think 3B
distributor).  It's basically a distributor with no cap or rotor, just
the Hall Effect sender.  These are very easy to get to and replace.
Audi of course decided that was either stupid or too expensive so the
rest of the cars have the CPS situated under the cam pulley and you have
to do a mini-timing belt job to get to it. 

Gabriel Caldwell


-----Original Message-----
From: chris chambers [mailto:fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: July 28, 2005 2:46 PM
To: Gabriel Caldwell; //Scar //Scar list
Subject: RE: [s-cars] My car died - HELP!

Oh great!

How hard is it to replace the CPS and is it mucho denero?
Anyone have a wriet up to test/replace that?

Is the CPS a part only the Urs4 takes?


Thanks
Chris


--- Gabriel Caldwell <gabriel at ts.bc.ca> wrote:

> That may indicate a CPS failure.  It will allow the car to run fine
> when
> it breaks (and turn on the check engine light) but you'll never be
> able
> to restart the car.  I keep a jumper wire in my glove box and the
> code
> list.  It has helped me a couple times now.  1 broken CPS wire and
> one
> dead MAF diagnosed within 2 minutes.
> 
> Off the top of my head that's the only thing I can think of, since no
> other codes are stored.  Don't know about that injector 1 code since
> the
> car didn't run rough.  Even if it was an open circuit to the
> injector,
> I'm thinking the car should still be able to start, but maybe not.
> Hopefully some other listers have more insight.
> 
> Gabriel Caldwell
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chris chambers [mailto:fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: July 28, 2005 2:07 PM
> To: Gabriel Caldwell; //Scar //Scar list
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] My car died - HELP!
> 
> I was under the missguided belief you couldn't blink the codes unless
> it was running.
> 
> DUH!!!
> 
> Only found one code 4411
> 
> 4411 (Blink Fault Code), VAG1551/2 Fault Code Number 01249 Fuel
> Injector for Cylinder 1, Open or short circuit Symptom: Engine runs
> rough or stalls 
> 
> Well engine didn't run rough or stall, it ran fine but had teh check
> engine light on. It just wouldn't re-start after I shut it down.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Chris
> 
> 
> --- Gabriel Caldwell <gabriel at ts.bc.ca> wrote:
> 
> > First thing to check is the codes.  The CPS code will appear if the
> > car
> > is not running so you can ignore that one (for now).
> > 
> > http://www.sjmautotechnik.com/trouble_shooting/ecuf20v.html
> > 
> > Gabriel Caldwell
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chris chambers [mailto:fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: July 28, 2005 11:35 AM
> > To: Scar
> > Subject: [s-cars] My car died - HELP!
> > 
> > S Gentz,
> > 
> > Went through the car wash and during the car wash teh check engine
> > light came on. Car was running fine and I was ~ 2 minutes drive
> from
> > my
> > houses (where I was headed) so I drove home.
> > 
> > Shut the car off and went to re-start it to see if the check engine
> > light would come back on and the car won't start!
> > 
> > Because the engine is hot, I'm letting it cool down and possibly
> dry
> > off whatever connection may have gotten wet and caused this. Who
> > knows
> > the car wash part could be coincidental.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on what to check first?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
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