[urq] sudden stumbling

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Johan,

You may have a restriction to the pump or filter, or the pump is just
getting old and weak.

Ingo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johan H" <milisen at hotmail.com>
To: <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:56 AM
Subject: [urq] sudden stumbling


> Hi ,
>
> I really need some professional advice from you guys before I get my
> precious -88 MB to service.
>
> I had not driven the car for about 1,5 weeks. When I fired it up it
started
> immediately and ran fine, I drove off and let it warm up... when I turned
to
> the motorway, I gave full boost for a while and I instantly noticed some
> hesitation, and at this point I noticed that the fuel reading was empty,
and
> the fuel range was 0, despite I had some gas in it when I left it.
>
> I drove carefully to the next fuel station and filled her up, but the
> hesitation did not go away.
>
> Question: could the low fuel level have broken the engine? What could have
> been broken?
>
> I should also mention that the car stumbled despite I drove slowly. But
> later when I started the car from cold, it ran fine on low revs, but
> directly as the boost level rised it started stumbling.
>
> Cheers,
> Johan Hisinger
> Helsinki, Finland
>
>
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