[s-cars] Sputter, No Boost, Stall, No Start.....New Battery and now No Check Engine Light.....

[Mike Sylvester]

Wouldn't it be more likely a bad coil being intermittent and then
failing, blowing the fuse?
There is no arcing when it comes to the low voltage side of the coil. 
For a chaffed wire to draw any current, bare wire must be touching the
valve cover.


Mike

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Sputter, No Boost, Stall, No Start.....New
> Battery and now No Check Engine Light.....
> From: chris chambers <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, April 03, 2013 3:30 pm
> To: Jim Fleischer <jim at almgt.com>, "s-car-list at audifans.com"
> <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> When you turn your key the CEL light ( MIL) should illuminate, if it doesn't it's an indicator of a problem which 
> I believe is a blown ECU fuse.  
> 
> One likely cause is one of the wires to your coils has worn through and started intermittently arcing to ground.
> This could explain why your car's start stumbling, and gradually got worse. As the wire arced more the
> car stumbled more.
> 
> HTH
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >________________________________
> > From: Jim Fleischer <jim at almgt.com>
> >To: s-car-list at audifans.com 
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 12:45 PM
> >Subject: Re: [s-cars] Sputter, No Boost, Stall, No Start.....New Battery and now No Check Engine Light.....
> > 
> >Okay guys,
> >
> >I had my battery tested, and although it still showed 12 volts, it only had less than 30 amps (supposed to have 650.)  Turned out the battery was almost 6 years old, so got my money out of that one!
> >
> >So, replaced it with another and put it in this morning.  Cranks much faster, but still no start.  I did notice that my CEL does not illuminate at all.....I've pulled codes as recently as a few months ago, and it came on during a stumble within the last month.  I want to say it was on when I stalled a couple days ago, along with all the other lights.  It's possible it could have gone out, but wanted to see if no CEL is indicative of something else.
> >
> >Going to test the Fuel Pump now.....
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Jim Fleischer
> >'95 urS6 avant......cranky.....
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