[V8] Infamous V8 No Start

Ingo Rautenberg ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 09:33:47 EDT 2007


'Cause it was VW/Audi's first V8?  Inexperience? Is yours chipped?   
Must be in the Motronic default start-up map. Doesn't like 'merican  
fuel quality?
Questions, questions...

Ingo

On Jul 13, 2007, at 8:04 AM, bhowell at rmi.net wrote:

> Yeah, I 100% agree with this theroy. However, my original line of
> questioning came from, WHY does this happen to the V8 and not ANY  
> other car
> I have EVER owned? Doesn't seem to matter if it's a 350 Chevy, 460  
> Ford, 5
> Cyl Audi, Air cooled VW, I can start and stop those cars to my heart
> content and they will always restart again. I would think that any  
> of these
> car would have a rich "cycle" on start up and the same
> unburnt-fuel-in-the-chamber theroy applies.
>
> I am not saying that I DO that or that I want to do that, I'm just  
> saying
> that it CAN be done in EVERY car I have owned EXCEPT the V8. Why?
>
> Ben
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Ron Wainwright ron_01056 at yahoo.com
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:54:37 -0700 (PDT)
> To: bhowell at rmi.net, v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] Infamous V8 No Start
>
>
>  As listers have mentioned....the car runs rich at
> startup...then you shut down....then you introduce
> another rich startup.....gas in the chamber soaking
> the plugs.
>  Mystery solved :-)?
>
>  Ron
>
>
>
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