[s-cars] Fw: Froward from a fellow canuck.

[Emre Washburn]

Tell him to try to start it with the MAF UNplugged.

P.S. I don't think I'll need your help after all with the cloth S6
seats, but if you want to meet up, I'd love to see how your car goes
with the new turbo.


--
Emre
92 //S4
90 Cq
40 valves 'O plenty!


On 10/20/05, Mark Strangways <strangconst at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> I am forwarding the message below to see what the great audi minds have to suggest. I have also encouraged this lad to join up to the mothership S-List ;-)
>
> Mark S
>
> Hi all,
>
> I thought I would post to see if anyone has had a similar problem. I
> own a 93 Audi S4 w/bout 230,000 KM's on it. I recently had a problem
> on the way home from work. The engine light flashed on a couple of
> times and then stayed on. While at a traffic light, the car stalled
> and could not be restarted. I was stuck and had to have the car towed
> to a mechanic.
>
> The mechanic replaced a speed sensor? and cam sensor?. The engine
> light was off when I picked it up. The car ran fine for a couple of
> days, and then the light started flickering again for a few km's then
> stayed on. The car would run rough at idle (nearly stalling), then
> would run OK at a constant tach reading above 2000. If I pressed the
> gas the engine would seem to lose all power and then eventually
> bucking up to a new speed. I nursed the car back to the same mechanic.
> He has had the car for the almost two weeks. I was called today and
> told he could not find the problem. He said he test drove it, and
> still has the same symptoms. The code that is coming up is the ECU,
> which he suggested could be replaced, but was not sure if it would fix
> the problem. He told me that this part was about $2000.00.
>
> The car has been chipped with a TAP stage 3 since I bought it in 2001.
> In 2003, I had basically the same symptoms I am having now
> (bucking/stalling and the engine light was on). At that time I had
> taken it to the dealer, and they told me the ECU code was coming up,
> and wanted to replace it then. I had read somewhere that if you chip
> your car it is not uncommon for the CPU indicator to come on. Anyway,
> I brought the car somewhere else, they replaced the mass air flow
> sensor and the car worked fine until now.
>
> I am certainly by no means a mechanic, but I am not sure that the
> problem is the ECU, and don't really want to replace it needlessly.
> I asked the mechanic to check the mass air flow sensor, and the spark
> plug coils. He assured me that in his experience it was neither of
> those things.
>
> So here I am, no car, significantly poorer, and shrugging my
> shoulders. I would really like to keep the car, it is a great car and
> is in great shape.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions, or the directions to a good
> mechanic in the Ottawa area.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bill
>
> PS Great pics for the fix of the blower moter, will give it a try if I
> ever get my car working again.
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