[V8] A8 misfire

[DasWolfen at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/16/03 8:20:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Ryandfreise at aol.com writes:

> This reminds me of a 1.8T that was around a month ago. It had a persistent 
> misfire and it turned out to be a broken valve spring.
> 
> I'm sorry Steve but I'm not buying the OXS sensor being responsible for 
> detection. In the 1.8T example from above the code would set upon cold start 
> so the 
> OXS should not have entered the equation. I could be WOB and if I am please 
> enlighten me. I was thinking it would be more likely a function of the 
> engine 
> speed sensor or a hall effect type device.

 I'm pretty sure misfire is detected by the knock sensors on late VAG 
engines.

KT