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

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I had an issue with the coil wires as they exited the coil cover. They dried out and cracked. At night you could see some of them arching to the engine. Repairing the wires corrected the stumbling, but it never blew a fuse at the ecu.

Robert
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Mike Sylvester" <mike at urq20v.com>
Sender: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:12:44 
To: chris chambers<fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>; Jim Fleischer<jim at almgt.com>; s-car-list at audifans.com<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Sputter, No Boost, Stall,
 No Start.....New Battery and now No Check Engine Light.....

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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