[s-cars] Passat 1.8T with more than coil problems

[Tony Hoffman]

yes, as mentioned, this is very common. Done literally hunderds in the
shop. One customer's A4 had a small pigtail plugged into the #1 coil,
with a ground wire coming out of it that wnet onto the head. Not sure
what that was about. Anyhow, his car got four new ones, then two of
them failed within the next 3 months. That was a year ago, no problems
since.

Oh, these are the push in coil packs. The bolt-in ones have a much
lower failure rate. They were on the earlier cars. The push-on ones
are "progress" I guess. Makes me love the 4kq more and more each day
;-)

On a side note, I had a guy from Belgum comment on my car at the DMV
yesterday when I came out from getting my CDL. He was asking if it was
a 5-cylinder and said he hadn't seen one on the road in years.

Tony


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I replaced all 4 of mine in an 18-month period, including 2 of them twice (fortunately at no charge for those 2). As Ti
> said, I received a letter about 2 months ago, and a follow-up earlier this month, to have them checked. I haven't bothered
> since none of mine are original, but HAVE sent the details and copies of the papeYes, rwork to Audi with a request for reimbursement
> of the approximately $1,000 I spent having them replaced. Haven't heard anything back yet.