[s-cars] full throttle miss - B5 A4 1.8t

[brian hoeft]

sounds spark related from your description.  those coil packs suck, also,
ive replaced a couple coil harnesses for customers that resulted in long
term succes. everyone breaks the harness clips and a lot of the sheathing
gets worn to the point of exposing bare wire,

-brian



On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> wrote:

> New plugs made no difference. I did swap out a coilpack and that
> solved the problem!
>
> Lee
>
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2010, at 10:23 PM, derocco_16v at comcast.net wrote:
>
> > My call would be a bad spark plug; I had something very similar
> > happen to me a while ago, and found a cracked spark plug-replaced it
> > and car feels great again. Good luck :)
> >
> > Martin,
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lee Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com>
> > To: "S-CAR list" <s-car-list at audifans.com>, quattro at audifans.com
> > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 8:19:12 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: [s-cars] full throttle miss - B5 A4 1.8t
> >
> > Patient is an '01 B5 A4 1.8t with 130K, recent coilpacks, APR chip.
> > Nothing has been changed on the car in the recent past. On heavy
> > throttle, it feels like I'm dropping a cylinder at 2800 RPM. Nothing
> > lower, and nothing at part throttle. When I've lost coilpacks, the
> > power loss is a lot more severe. This is more moderate, feels a bit
> > like hitting the rev limiter. Any thoughts on what this might be?
> > Bad spark plug? Fuel filter? If it matters, the car is silver.
> > Thanks! Lee
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