[s-cars] immanent coil failure/1.8t conversion

[David Kase]

Cleaning a knock sensor does little.  Replace that puppy...

Dave Kase


Paul DAnneo wrote:

>Varon,
>   
>  I've had a miss @WOT for sometime. 
>   
>  I replaced my coils with the Apicol kit and as Dave had said, it only took 10-15 mins. The only problem I have is that this hasn't solved my problem. 
>   
>   I also have a miss that gets worse as the car heats up. The last time I took it on a road trip I had to stop several times going up a summit to let the car rest and reset its self. As I would acellerate the miss would get worse. Finally the car just wouldn't go. So I'd stop and rest. then the car would run fine for 5-10 min. under normal driving, and again it would start missing.
>   I pulled the codes. 
>  2142 knock sensor. Mine looks brand new. But I cleaned anyway. No change.
>  2341 Oxygen sensor. I had just replaced mine months prior to my missing problem.
>   
>  So changing the coils didn't fix my problem.
>   
>  Have you replaced your fuel pump recently? Mines been replaced twice. Two pump failures inside 2 weeks. Next I'm replacing the FPR(fuel pres. reg.). I'll see how that goes.
>   
>  HTH,
>   
>  Paul
>
>"Varon H. Fugman" <vfugman at globaldialog.com> wrote:
>  My OEM coil failure is progressing nicely. from just the slightest
>hesitation under boost, to a miss at full boost during hot weather, to an
>occasional miss during regular driving.
>
>
>
>Yesterday, it stared missing at idle while stopped in traffic. Ah, ha, I
>thought, now I can disconnect injectors and see which cylinder is at a
>fault! But by the time I pulled into a parking lot it was running smoothly
>again, so no go.
>
>
>
>At any rate, I'm sure total coil failure is just around the corner, so I
>need do something fast.
>
>
>
>Any new developments with regard to 1.8t conversions? Should I just do it?
>
>
>
>Varon
>
>'95 S6
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