Re: 4KCSQ: stalling at cruise speed

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

That sounds like a coil problem to me! I had a problem rather like that with a
Rabbit GTI once, replaced the coil, problem went away. Seems that it cut out
when it got cold.
    -Josiah
    '84 GTI
    '86 Scirocco
    '87 QSW
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

c a l i b a n wrote:

>         my ex-gf's golf gti did this; she eventually sold the
>         car to a used car dealer.  the engine would cut out,
>         the tach needle would quickly bounce from 3k to 0 to
>         4 or 5k to 0.  put in the clutch, turn the key off,
>         on and restart.  a pain in the ass, and none of the
>         six mechanics she took it to could ever fix it.  it
>         was about a 90 golf or so.  maybe 88.  had the cool
>         striped colored seats, grey cloth.
>
> On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Dan Cooke wrote:
>
> :|Subject line says it all...driving down the road and it flat out acts like
> :|someone reached over and turned the ignition switch to the off position.
> :|
> :|The usual remedy is to pull off the road, wait 15-20 seconds, turn key to
> :|start position and the engine fires back up.    What gives?
> :|
> :|Dan Cooke
> :|90 90Q20V
> :|86 4KCSQ
> :|
>
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